| The Economist (UK) 1997 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| 1898 and all that - a brief history of Hong Kong. | Business, international | |
| 99% perspiration. (clothing industry in the Honduras) | Business, international | |
| A Balkan spring? (Serbian politics) | Business, international | |
| Abandon spaceship: rocket science. (delays and mishaps in space research) | Business, international | |
| A better sort of Japan-basher. (Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's reformist agenda)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| A bomb in Beijing. (terrorist bombing in Beijing, China, on Mar 7, 1997) | Business, international | |
| A brave idea: Russia. (raising housing maintenance and utility costs to market levels)(Europe) | Business, international | |
| Absence of 2020 vision: America's defence policy. (saving money in defense budget by reducing Pentagon bureaucracy) | Business, international | |
| A budget for reform. (European Union's financial proposals) | Business, international | |
| A burning issue. (UK political party election manifestos)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| A busted flush: how America's love affair with casino gambling turned to disillusionment.(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| A campaign to abort: in Britain, tighter laws are not the best way to limit the use of abortion.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| A canal deal: Panama and the United States. | Business, international | |
| A capital conundrum. (capital-gains tax cut)(Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| A car is born: choosing to launch a global product in an emerging market is risky. But Fiat had good reason to do so with the Palio. (Management Brief) | Business, international | |
| A case of office block: antitrust policy in America. | Business, international | |
| A cautionary tale. (bank lending in Japan)(Japanese Finance Survey) | Business, international | |
| A choice of devils. (divisions between leading Bosnian Serbs threaten peace accord)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| A clash of hemispheres: foreign trade. (trade between the US, Japan and Asia) | Business, international | |
| A connected world. (telecommunications industry in the 21st century)(Telecommunications Survey) | Business, international | Frances Cairncross |
| A conservative at last. (political thought adopted by John Major, prime minister of Great Britain)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| A cooling off period. (conference on global warming) | Business, international | |
| A coup in Cambodia. | Business, international | |
| A cow in tiger's clothing: Indian industry. | Business, international | |
| Action man: business has deferred to politics in modern Germany. Even so, Hans-Olaf Henkel, the leader of the country's industrialists, is determined to have his say. (Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Activate the money star: satellite operators. (telecom satellites) | Business, international | |
| A diary for 1997.(upcoming events) | Business, international | |
| A disappointing start: Gordon Brown showed in his first budget that Britain's new chancellor is neither iron nor principled. (Labour chancellor of the excequer)(Leaders)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| A disappointing start. (UK economic policy and Gordon Brown)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Adventures with capital: if only Europe could learn from America's success in nurturing new business.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Aerial combat: digital television. (multimedia industry in United Kingdom) | Business, international | |
| A fable concerning ambition. (analysis of management practices of online bookstores) | Business, international | |
| A fair honeymoon: but the real tests of Tony Blair's 100-day government are to come. (UK Labour prime minister) | Business, international | |
| A farewell to arms makers. (European defense industry) | Business, international | |
| A fiscal failure: America's budget deal is a grab-bag of political compromises that make little economic sense.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| A flexible Europe. (European Union policies)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| A fly in the ointment: Florida agriculture. (infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies) | Business, international | |
| Africa's bizarre borders: imposed arbitrarily, defended illogically and blamed incessantly, Africa's frontiers are largely irrelevant to its problems.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Afrikaners on a second Great Trek. (South Africa) | Business, international | |
| A fruitful connection: it is a different Steve Jobs who has returned to Apple Computer, the firm he helped to begin. (Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| After Deng. (death of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| After preferences: education in California. (University of California regents end affirmative action for minorities and women) | Business, international | |
| After the landslide.(victory of the Labor Party in British elections) | Business, international | |
| After the quake. (Mexican banks after the peso devaluation)(Survey of Banking in Emerging Markets) | Business, international | |
| A giant awakes. (revolution in Zaire sends shockwaves throughout Africa and beyond) | Business, international | |
| A giant sucking sound. (Japan's pension-management industry)(Finance and Economics) | Business, international | |
| A gift of tongues. (language translation performed by computers) | Business, international | |
| A glint of hope? (Ukraine) | Business, international | |
| A good day for Argentine democracy. (Pres. Carlos Menem's Justicialist Party lost at the polls) | Business, international | |
| A great British bounder. (corporate raider Andrew Regan)(Face Value) | Business, international | |
| A haunted castle in the sky. (Mir space station) | Business, international | |
| A healthy regime. (Italy's prospective membership in the European Monetary Union)(A Survey of Italy) | Business, international | |
| A hobo's unhappy home: letter from Okemah, Oklahoma. (hometown of legendary folk musician Woody Guthrie) | Business, international | |
| Ah, pan-American free trade! (commercial treaties) | Business, international | |
| AIDS in Africa: the quest for an AIDS treatment that the poor world can afford may have to offend some rich-world sensibilities.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Airborne. (future of the mobile telephone)(Telecommunications Survey) | Business, international | |
| A Korean chance: North Korea's apology to the South presents an opportunity to be grabbed.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Albright's perch.(Madeleine Albright, nominee for Secretary of State)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Albright's perilous debut. (Secretary of State Madeleine Albright attempts peace negotiations in the Middle East) | Business, international | |
| Alejo Peralta. (industrial pioneer) (Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Algeria's ghastly secret: behind a wall of silence, Algerians are being murdered in their hundreds. The West should insist on finding out what is happening.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Al Gore falls to Earth. (US Vice President's confession of soliciting political donations)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| A little EMU enlightenment: the debate about Europe's single currency has been blighted by the passions of extremists on both sides.(Economics Focus) | Business, international | |
| A little learning. (taxpayer cost of public education)(Economics Focus) | Business, international | |
| A little more like angels. (mayor's race in Los Angeles, California)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| All aboard. (America's growing mutual fund industry)(Fund Management Survey) | Business, international | |
| All aboard for campaign finance reform! | Business, international | |
| All-Australian Telstra: Asian telecoms. (telecommunications firm has large presence in Asia) | Business, international | |
| All change in the Balkans? Unfortunately, demonstrations do not necessarily mean democracy.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| All change, or no change, in Pakistan? (politics) | Business, international | |
| Allen Ginsberg.(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| All eyes on China. (reunification with Hong Kong) | Business, international | |
| All good fun: Venice film festival. | Business, international | |
| Allies or enemies? Colombia and the United States. | Business, international | |
| All mod cons. (British economic policy) | Business, international | |
| All must have degrees. (A Survey of Universities) | Business, international | |
| All our futures. (futures trading in Europe)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| All possible worlds: over the past year astronomers have at last been finding planets in orbit around other stars. Sadly for lonely earthlings, those detected so far do not look likely to harbour life. | Business, international | |
| All the news that fits: Russia's media.(resignation of Eduard Sagalaev, head of public television in Russia) | Business, international | |
| A log in the wind: hurricanes. (new monitoring equipment acquired by the National Hurricane Center) | Business, international | |
| A long shot: Albania. (elections) | Business, international | |
| A long way from America: Creditanstalt's flawed renaissance. | Business, international | |
| A lorry-load of trouble in Asia: if the Asian boom was multinational companies' most exciting opportunity, what might an Asian bust mean? | Business, international | |
| Al, Viktor and the Moscowrena. (relations between VP Al Gore and Russia's prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin)(Lexington)(American Survey)(Column) | Business, international | |
| A man for bad times. (Israeli Labour Party leader Ehud Barak) | Business, international | |
| Amateur night: reinventing Kodachrome. | Business, international | |
| A matter of convenience: Japanese retailing. (convenience stores in Japan) | Business, international | |
| A matter of give and take. (the politics of protection money in Colombia's oil industry) | Business, international | |
| A matter of life and politics: the politics of abortion.(abortion and politics in the United Kingdom) | Business, international | |
| America (and everyone) Online. (merger of America Online Inc. and CompuServe Corp.)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| America loses its Afrophobia. (US-African relations) | Business, international | |
| American politics, global trade. (argument in favor of Bill Clinton's fast-track trade authority wishes)(Column) | Business, international | Fred Bergsten |
| America's constant curse.(race relations) | Business, international | |
| America's dose of Sinophobia. (U.S.-China relations) | Business, international | |
| A Middle Eastern time-out? (Israel and the Palestinians) | Business, international | |
| A missed chance: Italy.(attempt at government reform) | Business, international | |
| A missed chance. (political reform in Italy) | Business, international | |
| A model shows its age: pension reform. (Chile) | Business, international | |
| A month gone, and still waiting: Peru. (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement hostage crisis and Pres. Alberto Fujimori's politics) | Business, international | |
| A mountain to climb. (British politics) | Business, international | |
| A murder too far. (Basque separatist group ETA's murder of councillor Miguel Angel Blanco Garrido stirs national protests in Spain) | Business, international | |
| An act of God. (the El Nino weather phenomenon) | Business, international | |
| An adult affair.(electronic communications in the adult entertainment business)(Cybersex) | Business, international | |
| An African answer to African wars. (peacekeeping force) | Business, international | |
| An African success story. (economic growth in South Africa) | Business, international | |
| An Asian pea-souper: pollution. (increasing air pollution in Southeast Asia) | Business, international | |
| An aspirin a day keeps the doctor at bay. (aspirin turns 100) | Business, international | |
| An awkward ruling couple. (France's prime minister Lionel Jospin and president Jacques Chirac) | Business, international | |
| An AWSome future: Poland. (the Solidarity Electoral Action coalition) | Business, international | |
| And forget George Washington: Empire in the Americas. (Caribbean colonies) | Business, international | |
| And for my next experiment: Chicago schools. (school reform)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| And it finally came to tears: Japan's financial system is melting down. It is unclear whether the government can act quickly enough to stop it.(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| And never the twain shall meet ... building business relationships in Asia, and then keeping them, is proving far harder than foreign companies imagined. | Business, international | |
| And now prices can be "virtual" too: the value of new products may seem obvious to those who buy them. But economists find it tricky to estimate.(Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Andres Rodriguez. (former president of Paraguay dies)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| And South-East Asia thinks it's all over. (economic instability) | Business, international | |
| And the winner is ... Slovakia and the Czech Republic. | Business, international | |
| An end and a beginning.(The Millennial Itch) | Business, international | |
| An English case study: the pros and cons of free trade in rugby players. | Business, international | |
| A new Atlantic alliance?(A Survey of the Global Defence Industry) | Business, international | |
| A new brand for Britain: will New Labour succeed in reinventing Britishness? | Business, international | |
| A new European order. (Russia's new partnership with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | Business, international | |
| A new foreign policy? (France) | Business, international | |
| A new intifada? Not quite: Palestinians. | Business, international | |
| A new manager: Germany. (Christian Democratic Union leader Wolfgang Schauble)(Europe) | Business, international | |
| A new sort of boom-bust cycle: Russian banks.(banking reform in Russia) | Business, international | |
| A new vein: South African gold. | Business, international | |
| An example in the Andes: Bolivia. (election) | Business, international | |
| An expensive way to go.(The Business of Bereavement) | Business, international | |
| Angst for the Angstroms: selling cars. (superstores that sell new cars) | Business, international | |
| An ideas mine: Scottish universities. | Business, international | |
| An old-fashioned, modern look: Russia.(local government in Russia) | Business, international | |
| An open-and-shut case. (defense industry in Taiwan and China)(A Survey of the Global Defence Industry) | Business, international | |
| An opportunist returns: Afghanistan. (Afghan leader Abdul Rashid Dostam) | Business, international | |
| Another go at reviving the UN. (restructuring the United Nations to improve financial support) | Business, international | |
| Another housing boom?(UK housing market) | Business, international | |
| Another world: foreign investment is a success; but it is less important, and less popular, than outsiders think. (Business in Eastern Europe Survey) | Business, international | |
| A not so certain idea of France. (teaching French history) | Business, international | |
| Answered prayer: education. (public vs. Catholic schools)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| An unbrotherly disagreement. (border dispute between Peru and Ecuador) | Business, international | |
| An unhealthy silence.(British National Health Service financial crisis) | Business, international | |
| Any alternative? (US Office of Alternative Medicine) | Business, international | |
| Anyone for ... zzzz ... tennis? (tennis's appeal) | Business, international | |
| Applets with attitude: computers. | Business, international | |
| A question of degree. (US education policy)(Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| A question of leadership. (US trade policy)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| A question to Tony Blair: will your government be an elective dictatorship? (UK) | Business, international | |
| Arab autocracy for ever? (most Arab nations lack democratic governments) | Business, international | |
| A really big adventure. (venture capital firms promote growth of US high technology industry)(Venture Capitalists) | Business, international | |
| A recession-proof industry: Mississippi's prisons. | Business, international | |
| A recipe for failure. (constitutional reform by Britain's Labor Party)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Are friends electric? (creating on-line communities)(Reviews of Books and Multimedia) | Business, international | |
| A relic of empire: the Caribbean.(legal system of some Caribbean countries still tied to the UK) | Business, international | |
| Are the Tories dead and buried?(Conservative Party, United Kingdom; Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| A revolution: British cooking. | Business, international | |
| Argentina's lopsided recovery. | Business, international | |
| Arguing about the monarchy.(television debate over the British monarchy)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Arming for the data wars: the financial-information industry has enjoyed years of wild growth. | Business, international | |
| Arms for Syria? South Africa. (US will try to stop Nelson Mandela and the South African government from trading with its enemy Syria) | Business, international | |
| ARM's race: semiconductor companies. (Advanced RISC Machines) | Business, international | |
| Arm-twisting in Latin America.(U.S. 'decertification' of Colombia anti-drug efforts)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Artist's royalties. | Business, international | |
| A sense of security: sooner or later, Japan will have to play a much bigger military role in Asia. It's new pact with America is just the beginning.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| As hamburgers go, so goes America? (cases of E. coli infection)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Asia and the abyss. (economic turmoil in Asia)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Asia in the rough. (how the popularity of golf in Asia illustrates the region's political and economic problems) | Business, international | |
| Asia's fall from grace: the next crises are already rumbling.(Survey of Banking in Emerging Markets) | Business, international | |
| Asia's population advantage: if demography has its way, Asian economies should continue growing rapidly for decades to come. (Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Asia's precarious miracle: economic growth in East Asia is far from over. But many East Asian countries need structural reforms if it is to continue.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Asia's stockmarket nightmare. (systemic causes of Asian financial crises) | Business, international | |
| Asking for trouble: social research. (techniques) | Business, international | |
| A (slightly) new Italian establishment. (political reform) | Business, international | |
| A slow retreat from freedom. (First Amendment)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| A sonic boon. (origins of music) | Business, international | |
| A sorry way to sell a state.(failed privatization of French bank Credit Industriel et Commercial) | Business, international | |
| A spanner in the works. (future of the European monetary unit)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Assembling the new economy: a new economic paradigm is sweeping America. It could have dangerous consequences. (globalization and technology) | Business, international | |
| A star to sail by? (measuring the value companies create for shareholders) | Business, international | |
| A state of confusion: India. | Business, international | |
| A stick-in-the-mud sort of place. (proposed relocation of Grundy, Virginia) | Business, international | |
| A subtle syllogism: marijuana as a medicine. | Business, international | |
| A suitable case for treatment. (modernization of the Japanese economy)(Japanese Finance Survey) | Business, international | Richard Cookson |
| A suitable target for foreign policy? (human rights issues)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| A surprise in the woods. (rejection of Greenpeace International's anti-logging campaign in British Columbia, Canada) | Business, international | |
| A symphony in gamma major. (gamma ray bursts) | Business, international | |
| As you were: Algeria.(same old politics in Algeria) | Business, international | |
| As you were in Italy. (proposed new constitution is a triumph for old politics) | Business, international | |
| As you were. (politics in Algeria) | Business, international | |
| A tale of two cities. (New York City conditions under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani) | Business, international | |
| A terminal case: Heathrow airport. (plans to add a fifth terminal) | Business, international | |
| A test of mid-west mettle. (manufacturing industries)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| A test of uncertainty. (screening test for breast cancer) | Business, international | |
| A thin black line: redistricting. (how redrawing of Congressional district lines affects incumbents) | Business, international | |
| At last, the fuel cell. (application of fuel cells to power generation and motor vehicles) | Business, international | |
| A travesty of justice: why the second O.J. Simpson trial was not much better than the first. (civil trial of former professional football player O.J. Simpson)(Leaders)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| A trial's loose ends. (trial and conviction of Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh) | Business, international | |
| A tricky transformation. (business people in politics) | Business, international | |
| At the crossroads. (France's strengths and challenges)(Balladur on France) | Business, international | Edouard Balladur |
| A tune is worth 1,000 pictures: the neglected craft of film music. | Business, international | |
| Author! Author! (book tours) | Business, international | |
| A very big deal. (change in business climate caused by privatization)(A Survey of Business in Latin America) | Business, international | |
| A very Birtish coup. (John Birt of the BBC) | Business, international | |
| A very special relationship: France and Quebec. | Business, international | |
| A victory in Peru: but a much bigger social challenge has still to be met. (rescue of hostages)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Avoiding bust: the economy.(British economy) | Business, international | |
| Avoiding the Algerian precedent: Morocco. (Islamic violence) | Business, international | |
| A warming world: countries have not lived up to their environmental promises. | Business, international | |
| A week on the wild side. (international stock market crash)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| A whopping great explosion. (Japanese Finance Survey) | Business, international | |
| A world view. (mass media and globalization)(Schools Brief)(part 7) | Business, international | |
| A Wulff at the door: Germany. (Christian Wulff) | Business, international | |
| Babes with guns: Britain's videogame industry. | Business, international | |
| Back from the desert: Egypt.(transforming desert to farmland)(International) | Business, international | |
| Back on the job. (US involvement in Israeli-Palestinian peace process)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Back on the pitch. (A Survey of Business in Latin America) | Business, international | Michael Reid |
| Back to basics: Mies van der Rohe. (architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) | Business, international | |
| Back to budgets. (India's public finances)(India Survey) | Business, international | |
| Back to the glory days? (analysis of US economic development) | Business, international | |
| Bad for business? (French election) | Business, international | |
| Badly sold: privatization. (unpopularity of privatization in Britain) | Business, international | |
| Bad to worse: Albania. | Business, international | |
| Bailing and flailing: Thailand. (economy deteriorating) | Business, international | |
| Balancing act.(effect of direct foreign investments on world trade; Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Ballad of the global worker. (A Survey of the World Economy) | Business, international | |
| Banana row: the eastern Caribbean. (banana industry's trade protection with United Kingdom threatened)(The Americas) | Business, international | |
| Ban cyberspace. (analysis of computer jargon) | Business, international | |
| Bang on target: magnetism. (experimenting with electron flow and powerful magnetic fields) | Business, international | |
| Banking's bad jokes: despite a clutch of recent disasters, banks still have much to learn about how to control their trading risks. | Business, international | |
| Banking's biggest disaster. (Credit Lyonnais) | Business, international | |
| Banks in never-never land. (bank credit-risk management)(Japanese Finance Survey) | Business, international | |
| Ban mines now; Britain is joining the countries who believe that a ban on anti-personnel landmines should not wait until it is global.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Batting for Britain: Europe.(the United Kingdom and European Union) | Business, international | |
| Battling on, for Germany and for Europe. (Helmut Kohl) | Business, international | |
| Bazaar software: intellectual property.(Hong Kong) | Business, international | |
| Bean-counters unite: the mergers of Ernst & Young and KPMG to create the world's largest accountancy firm affects business everywhere, and not necessarily for the better. (Business) | Business, international | |
| Bearing the weight of the market. (global markets)(Schools Brief) | Business, international | |
| Beating the system: Cuba. (self-employment) | Business, international | |
| Beauty beats the beast. (reemergence of glamorous stars in the movie industry) | Business, international | |
| Bedfellows: Fidelity and Salomon Brothers. | Business, international | |
| Beer cop: South Africa.(South African Breweries Chmn Meyer Kahn appointed chief executive of country's national police force) | Business, international | |
| Beer, sandwiches and statistics: trade union membership is in decline in many countries. The consequences are not entirely what economists expected. | Business, international | |
| Beetle drives: animal behaviour. | Business, international | |
| Be fruitful.(population regeneration in Rwanda) | Business, international | |
| Behind the chador. (women in Iran)(Iran Survey) | Business, international | |
| Beijing rules: China's state-owned enterprises. | Business, international | |
| Benign conspiracies: economic history suggests that collusion between companies is not always an evil plot to fleece customers. (antitrust laws)(Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Best-seller. (censorship in Iran) | Business, international | |
| Better, faster, cheaper: why life in a connected world will be different. (Telecommunications Survey) | Business, international | |
| Beware of squirrels. (foreign exchange reserves) | Business, international | |
| Beware the cyber-regulator: finance on the Internet. | Business, international | |
| Beware the millennium: financial technology.(computer calendars) | Business, international | |
| Beyond the myths.(Asia's future) | Business, international | Christopher Patten |
| Beyond the welfare state: smaller government need not hurt the weak. (A Survey of the World Economy) | Business, international | |
| Biased referee? (European Union countries are skeptical of the European Court of Justice) | Business, international | |
| Big bad John. (British prime minister John Major) | Business, international | |
| Bigger NATO, safer world?(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Big Mac currencies: can hamburgers provide hot tips about exchange rates? | Business, international | |
| Big sister is watching you: telemedicine.(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Big tobacco's about-turn. (tobacco industry may seek to settle claims against it)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Big winners, big losers: Australia. (casinos)(Asia) | Business, international | |
| Biju Patnaik. (Indian politician dies on April 17, 1997 at age 81)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Bill Clinton's brave new world.(Interview) | Business, international | |
| Bill Clinton's dilemma. (free trade expansion)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Bill Clinton's golden moment.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Bill Cohen in the labyrinth.(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Bill Paxon's lean and hungry look. (congressman involved in ploy to unseat Newt Gingrich as House Speaker)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Bills of exchange: print graphics. (poster collectibles) | Business, international | |
| Birds do it, bees do it .... (research on sexual behavior in animals and humans) | Business, international | |
| Birds of a feather mate together. (biological research on reinforcement) | Business, international | |
| Bismarck's steed: Germany. (consensus system used to resolve labor disputes) | Business, international | |
| Black can be rich: South Africa. (distribution of wealth among blacks) | Business, international | |
| Blackmail in Ulster. (reaction to the July 1997 Orange Order marches)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Black, white and wrongheaded. (US racial policy)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Blair's union dues. (UK prime minister Tony Blair)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Blair's wild bunch.(Scottish Labour Party; Tony Blair) | Business, international | |
| Blair takes his partner. (UK Labour Party leader Tony Blair)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Blood on the high streets: British banks. | Business, international | |
| Blowing smoke: tobacco is not, properly speaking, a social problem at all, but the growing anti-smoking movement is quickly becoming one. | Business, international | |
| Blue morpho and magnificent owl: butterflies. | Business, international | |
| Bluma Trell. (historian of ancient Greece dies on June 10, 1997 at age 94)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Bohemia's fading rhapsody. (economy in the Czech republic) | Business, international | |
| Boom and gloom in Germany: restructuring in German business is beginning to pay off. | Business, international | |
| Boot up the television set. (Sony develops combination televisions and personal computers) | Business, international | |
| Border wars: inward investment. (regions of England complain that devolution of Scotland and Wales is affecting their economies) | Business, international | |
| Boris Yeltsin's unruly brood. (Russian president's political opposition) | Business, international | |
| Bosnia in the balance. (Serb war criminals) | Business, international | |
| Bound and shackled: Gordon Brown, the shadow chancellor, has set tough targets on spending, borrowing and inflation; good economics, but will it prove good politics?(Britain) | Business, international | |
| Bow down to Cowtown. (economic development in Fort Worth, Texas) | Business, international | |
| Bowled over by tradition: letter from Lord's. (English cricket) | Business, international | |
| Boxing on: Poland.(Poland's economic problems) | Business, international | |
| BP at war: Colombia. (accusations against British Petroleum) | Business, international | |
| Brassed off: Russia. (Igor Sergeyev takes over as Defense minister) | Business, international | |
| Brazil heads for recession. (market influence on government's efforts to protect nation's currency) | Business, international | |
| Brazil on borrowed time. (economic and monetary policy) | Business, international | |
| Brazil's backlands classic. (Euclides da Cunha's 'Os Sertoes,' a retelling of the 1897 military conflict in Brazil) | Business, international | |
| Brazil's bought votes and presidential perils. (bribery scandal impacts Pres. Fernando Henrique Cardoso's rule) | Business, international | |
| Brazil's re-election carnival.(presidential politics) | Business, international | |
| Breaking the brain barrier.(Science and Technology) | Business, international | |
| Breaking Turkey's impasse: constitutional reform, not an army coup, is the way to do it.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Breathe deeply: medical imaging. | Business, international | |
| Breathing fire: South Korean industry. (Ssangyong) | Business, international | |
| Bricklayers' blues. (Japan construction industry expected to experience a downturn) | Business, international | |
| Bridge-building in Washington. (crime in Washington, D.C.)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Britain's colonial obligations. (to remaining dependencies other than Hong Kong) | Business, international | |
| Britain's healthy economy: which party is least likely to make it sick again?(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Broken heads, dashed hopes. (prospects for peace in Northern Ireland)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Brotherly love: Brazil. (presidential politics) | Business, international | |
| Brown in the hot seat. (UK Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown) | Business, international | |
| Brown's greenfield budget. (Gordon Brown's budget for the UK)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Bruce Reed's welfare high. (head of domestic policy; welfare reform's prospects)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Brussels v Boeing: The European Union's competition commissioner still wants to veto Boeing's merger with McDonnell Douglas. | Business, international | |
| Brussels v Boeing: trade wars. (European Union) | Business, international | |
| Brutal seventh: Kenya. (violence on Jul 7, 1997, the seventh anniversary of the 1990 political rallies) | Business, international | |
| Buddy can you spare a lung? (need for more liberal organ transplant policies)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Build a better kilogram ... and the world will beat a path to your door. (Science and Technology) | Business, international | |
| Building to order: genetic engineering. (research on transgenic animals) | Business, international | |
| Built in Bavaria: German banking. | Business, international | |
| Bulls, pills and patents. (Sepracor buys drugs after their patents expire, tries to improve them, then resells them)(Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Bully-boys at work. (human rights abuses in Iran)(Iran Syrvey) | Business, international | |
| Burying South Africa's past: of memory and forgiveness. (accomplishments of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) | Business, international | |
| Business-class socialist. (profile of British Airways chairman Robert Ayling) | Business, international | |
| Business (cycle) as usual: like all good things, bull markets eventually come to an end.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| But can we really explain it all? (unified theory of physics) | Business, international | |
| Buy, buy, buy. (acquisitions of Latin American companies by multinational corporations)(A Survey of Business in Latin America) | Business, international | |
| Buyers beware.(British government investigating price fixing) | Business, international | |
| Byting back: Russian computers. | Business, international | |
| Byzantine diplomacy: Cyprus. | Business, international | |
| Byzantium, Inc: Russian finance. (corruption in the banking system) | Business, international | |
| Calamity Carol: Illinois politics. (Senator Carol Moseley-Braun) | Business, international | |
| Call waiting: German telecoms. | Business, international | |
| Cambodia's bitter partnership. (Cambodian People's party and the FUNCINPEC party)(Asia) | Business, international | |
| Campaigning: Canada. (federal election) | Business, international | |
| Can a bear love a dragon? (Russia-China relations) | Business, international | |
| Canada's early election: a chance to even up old scores.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Canada - well, most of it - tries again: yet another scheme to win over Quebec and ensure national unity. | Business, international | |
| Can China deliver the goods? (issue of membership in the World Trade Organization) | Business, international | |
| Can dachshunds be whippets? Banking in Germany.(ethics investigations of German landesbanks) | Business, international | |
| Can EMU be left to stew?(European Union's Economic and Monetary Union) | Business, international | |
| Can he win: why John Major will have an uphill struggle to win Britain's general election on May 1st.(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Can Japan be Asia's policeman? | Business, international | |
| Can't get enough of that zunk. (emerging country debt market)(Finance and Economics) | Business, international | |
| Can you trust it? Electronic conflicts of interest. (publishing on the Internet) | Business, international | |
| Capital corundum. (impact of capital gains tax cuts) | Business, international | |
| Capital goes global: schools brief. (increase in international financial flows not a threat to financial market stability) | Business, international | |
| Capital ideas. (return on equity low among Japanese corporations)(Japanese Finance Survey) | Business, international | |
| Capital punishment. (banking regulation in emerging markets)(Survey of Banking in Emerging Markets) | Business, international | |
| Capital punishments. (poor planning and design of capital cities) | Business, international | |
| Capturing the customer. (competition in the telecommunications industry)(Telecommunications Survey) | Business, international | |
| Carbon balls to a radical rescue. (buckminsterfullerenes in medicine) | Business, international | |
| Care for a downgrade? (British Airways' personnel problems) | Business, international | |
| Caribbean follies. (UK goverment's poor handling of the Montserrat volcano disaster) | Business, international | |
| Caribbean woes: trading with the United States. (because of NAFTA, they pay tariffs on exports to the US) | Business, international | |
| Carnage in Jerusalem. (suicide bombings in Jerusalem markets on July 30, 1997) | Business, international | |
| Carrier questions: the future of the Royal Navy. (aircraft carrier procurement in the UK) | Business, international | |
| Casteing stones: India. (lower castes revolt, resulting in civil unrest) | Business, international | |
| Cat and mouse in Singapore.(tyrannical actions of the People's Action Party in Singapore) | Business, international | |
| Catch-up: American Express. | Business, international | |
| Categorical aperitif: philosophy cafes.(discussion of philosophy in French cafes) | Business, international | |
| Categorical imperatives: supermarket retailing. | Business, international | |
| Caught in the net: too early for customers?(Internet)(Survey - Silicon Valley)(Industry Overview) | Business, international | |
| Central America opens for business. | Business, international | |
| Central European cover story. (Alianz's business interests in Hungary and Czech Republic)(Management Brief)(part five) | Business, international | |
| Challenging the Peronists: an opposition get-together brings new trouble for Argentina's Carlos Menem. | Business, international | |
| Chaos in Caracas. (banking crisis in Venezuela)(Survey of Banking in Emerging Markets) | Business, international | |
| Chaos or worse: Albania. | Business, international | |
| Chasing windfalls: taxation. (the Labor Party introduces its first budget in Great Britain) | Business, international | |
| Checkout accountants: retailers in banking.(retail stores in UK offer financial services) | Business, international | |
| Cheer up, Europe. | Business, international | |
| Chewing big tobacco. (tobacco industry's national agreement)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| China adopts the chaebol.(reform of state-owned business) | Business, international | |
| China and the chaebol. (China emulates South Korean business models) | Business, international | |
| China's new cultural revolution. | Business, international | |
| China's new revolutionary? (Jiang Zemin)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| China's rebellious province. (Xinjiang) | Business, international | |
| China's rebellious west. | Business, international | |
| Chinese traders at the door. (China and international trade) | Business, international | |
| Chipper, for now. (Proton, electronic cash system) | Business, international | |
| Chirac and Juppe hope for change. (Jacques Chirac; Alain Juppe; France's election outlook) | Business, international | |
| Chirac's gamble: will France vote for economic pain and the euro? (French Pres Jacques Chirac)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Chocks away: an acrimonious dispute between America and Japan over international airlines looks set to get worse. | Business, international | |
| Chopping and changing: labour markets. | Business, international | |
| Chopping up America's power. (electricity deregulation)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Chris Smith's class act. (British Heritage secretary demands accountability from the Royal Opera House)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Circles of fear: an anti-missile shield. (increased availability of cruise and ballistic missiles) | Business, international | |
| Circle squared? France's budget. | Business, international | |
| City life. (economic policies in China)(Survey China) | Business, international | |
| Civil wars. (aircraft industry competes in civilian arena) | Business, international | |
| Clean air, dirty fight. (air pollution laws)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Cleaning up dirty money.(money laundering)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Clean living in Iceland. (hydrogen as fuel)(Science and Technology) | Business, international | |
| Clever cleavage: chip technology. | Business, international | |
| Cliffhanger on Wall Street. (stock market)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Cloak, dagger and muddle: spying in Japan. | Business, international | |
| Coining it: the euro. | Business, international | |
| Colombia contemplates extraditing its drugsters. (drug smuggling cartels) | Business, international | |
| Colombia's guerilla wars.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Colombia's unreported refugees: little noticed by the outside world, a humanitarian disaster is under way in north-western Colombia. | Business, international | |
| Combatant clergy and clerics.(Iran Survey) | Business, international | |
| Comic opera: Italy's stock exchange. | Business, international | |
| Competition lowers the costs of medicines for consumers.(Pfizer Forum) | Business, international | W. Duncan Reekie |
| Confusion: the law and medicine. (reproductive technology)(Britain) | Business, international | |
| Conglomerates on trial: conglomerates have taken a battering from management theorists. But is there something to be said for them after all?(Management Focus) | Business, international | |
| Connections needed: oil firms in Russia are desperately trying to find ways to export more oil from the country. | Business, international | |
| Consensus versus jobs: Spain. (economic reforms) | Business, international | |
| Consultant, heal thyself: the industry needs a dose of its own medicine.(Management Consultancy Survey) | Business, international | |
| Containing Saddam. (recommendation to continue enforcing UN Security Council sanctions against Iraq)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Cookery class: Bosnia. (progress on peace agreement) | Business, international | |
| Cook's roar. (Labour Party's Robin Cook looks favorable toward European Union)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Cook's tour. (United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Coping with unwellcome news. (Glaxo Wellcome to lose patent protection for Zantac) | Business, international | |
| Costing a bomb.(costs of nuclear disarmament) | Business, international | |
| Courting abuse: memories "recovered" in therapy should not be allowed in court.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Cows in trust: preserving farmland. (land-trust conservation) | Business, international | |
| Cracking Canada: the fragmentation continues.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Crash, dammit. (stock market)(Leaders)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Cross-border patrol: the case for global policing.(Survey of Banking in Emerging Markets) | Business, international | |
| Crossed fingers in France. (Pres Jacques Chirac's call for elections) | Business, international | |
| Crossed lines: microprocessors. (Plasma & Materials Technologies is developing insulation that may cut down on cross-talk) | Business, international | |
| Crusader with a paper sword. (Pres Clinton's state of the union address) | Business, international | |
| Cue the qubits: quantum computing. | Business, international | |
| Culture of thrift: bank management. (Swedish bank Svenska Handelsbanken) | Business, international | |
| Curbing the car: transport. (Britain's new transportation policy) | Business, international | |
| Curing the NHS's ills. (Britain's National Health Service) | Business, international | |
| Curiously cautious O'Connor. (Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Cut and paste: demergers and acquisitions.(PepsiCo Inc.) | Business, international | |
| Cut the volume: German television. (digital television) | Business, international | |
| Cutting Britain's defence.(Labour Party promises review of military spending)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| C.V. Wedgwood. (historian)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Dambuilders and dambusters. | Business, international | |
| Damned if they do: Laos. (plans for building dams there for hydroelectric power) | Business, international | |
| Damned if you do: water in the West (2).(Elwha River dams, Washington) | Business, international | |
| Dancing in the dark: can't stop starting businesses.(Silicon Valley, CA) | Business, international | |
| Dan Coats, senator for charity. (senator from Indiana)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Danger and opportunity. (in China's banking industry)(Survey of Banking in Emerging Markets) | Business, international | |
| Darkness at noon.(health effects of the Persian Gulf War) | Business, international | |
| Darwin revisited. (compulsory sterilization programs)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Deadline for Angola. (to reach peace) | Business, international | |
| Dear Dr. Tatiana: why is sex so much like war? (sex habits of animals) | Business, international | |
| Death and the American. (analysis of motivations keeping the death penalty intact) | Business, international | |
| Death by a thousand cuts: insurance.(independent insurance brokers) | Business, international | |
| Declare victory and go home. (President Bill Clinton and Congress agree on plan to balance the federal budget) | Business, international | |
| Deeper in debt. (analysis of British budget) | Business, international | |
| Deep in the heart of Texas. (high-technology industry in Austin, TX)(Silicon Valley, CA) | Business, international | |
| Deflating the jumbo: Airbus and Boeing. (airplane industry) | Business, international | |
| Deflation and all that. (fears that global overcapacity will cause deflation) | Business, international | |
| Defying big brother: Hong Kong's cultural evolution. | Business, international | |
| Delivering the goods. (international trade expansion facilitated by declining costs of transporting goods)(Schools Brief) | Business, international | |
| Democracy at a price. (government spending)(A Survey of the World Economy) | Business, international | |
| Democracy at last. (political, economic reform in Mexico)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Democracy day in Mexico: the new Congress has opened with the PRI in an unfamiliar minority. (Institutional Revolutionary Party) | Business, international | |
| Democracy, Mexican-style. (elections) | Business, international | |
| Democracy under fire: Colombia's president wants peace. Its guerrillas want to stop people voting. | Business, international | |
| Demons, democracy - and Peter Mandelson. (UK Labor Party's director of communications)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Department of debunkery: economic policy advice.(evaluation of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers) | Business, international | |
| Destruction averted: Miami. | Business, international | |
| Devolution can be salvation. (decentralization of government in Europe) | Business, international | |
| Diana, Princess of Wales. (dies on August 31, 1997 at age 36)(Obituary)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Dick Gephardt's inflation.(Lexington)(American Survey)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Did Britain's diplomats blunder? (over Hong Kong) | Business, international | |
| Digging deep in Busang: Indonesian gold.(Canadian companies battle for what could become the world's largest gold mine) | Business, international | |
| Digging for trouble: coal.(Asia) | Business, international | |
| Digital snap: Japan's photographic industry. | Business, international | |
| Dinosaurs still stalk the Earth. (US television broadcast networks) | Business, international | |
| Dire straights: civil liberties. (reduction during John Major's tenure) | Business, international | |
| Disenchanted: new towns. (around London, England) | Business, international | |
| Disunited families: employee ownership.(United Air Lines) | Business, international | |
| Divided and ruled: pressure for democratic reform has yet to achieve critical mass. (A Survey of Indonesia) | Business, international | |
| Divided continent. (defense industry in Europe)(A Survey of the Global Defence Industry)(Industry Overview) | Business, international | |
| Divided in Brooklyn: blacks and Jews. (New York) | Business, international | |
| Divines opine: poverty and inequality. (British economy) | Business, international | |
| Dobson's choice: health. (UK Health Secretary Frank Dobson's plans for National Health reform) | Business, international | |
| Dog-eat-dog days: Russia. (political infighting in the Russian government between Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Potanin) | Business, international | |
| Doing it differently: wiring corporate Japan. (computer networking of offices) | Business, international | |
| Doing it their way: success old and new.(Management Consultancy Survey) | Business, international | |
| Doing the business. (problems of communist-era businesses)(Business in Eastern Europe Survey) | Business, international | |
| Doing the splits: Europe's Council of Ministers. | Business, international | |
| Donald Trump's house of cards. (efforts by developer to oust small businesses)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Don't ban the bomb. (nuclear weapons)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Don't be salesmen.(governments should not promote private export deals)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Don't be vague. (leadership race for the UK's Conservative Party)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Don't let it happen again. (ethics violations in human medical experimentation) | Business, international | |
| Don't "save" the yen. (Group of Seven's monetary policy)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Dorrell sits on the thistle. (UK Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell's controversial remarks about Scotland)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Down and out: homelessness is one of America's most visible social ills; can economics offer ways to cure it?(Economic Focus) | Business, international | |
| Down with distance. (changes occurring in the international long-distance telephone market)(Telecommunications Survey) | Business, international | |
| Draw the blinds: Thai banking. (bleak financial outlook) | Business, international | |
| Dress code: stamping out sweatshops.(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Dr. Gallup's finger on America's pulse. (history of public opinion polls) | Business, international | |
| Drifting away: Taiwan. (anniversary of the 1947 '2.28' massacre brings nationalism to the forefront) | Business, international | |
| Drinks, anyone? (merger plans between Grand Metropolitan and Guinness opposed by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton) | Business, international | |
| Driven to distraction. (inter-governmental conference)(European Union Survey) | Business, international | |
| Dr Mahathir and the markets. (Malaysian stock markets; Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Drop your guns: Albania. (efforts to control political violence) | Business, international | |
| Dual track: landmines.(international attempts at banning landmines) | Business, international | |
| Dumamonger. (the Duma and the state of Russian politics) | Business, international | |
| Dump and be damned: Taiwan and North Korea. (nuclear waste) | Business, international | |
| Earth to Kalmykia, come in please. (unusual region in Soviet Republic) | Business, international | |
| Eastern approaches. (adding new members)(European Union Survey) | Business, international | |
| Eastern promise.(report by economists Richard Baldwin, Joseph Francois, and Richard Portes on admission of Eastern European countries to the European Union)(Economic Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Eastern reproaches: Germany and Islam. | Business, international | |
| Eastward ho, they said warily. (European Commission's Agenda 2000 includes expanding into Eastern Europe) | Business, international | |
| Economists as gurus. (business economics)(Management Focus) | Business, international | |
| Ecuador's post-modern coup.(Abdala Bucaram ousted by Congress) | Business, international | |
| Edging forward: Northern Ireland. (peace talks initiated)(Britain) | Business, international | |
| Education and the wealth of nations.(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Eel with cherries anyone? (Cannes Film Festival) | Business, international | |
| Eggbeaten. (theory on planet and asteroid formation formulated) | Business, international | |
| Election foretaste: Germany. (election in Hamburg, Germany) | Business, international | |
| Election year: China. (Communist Party congress) | Business, international | |
| Electoral consequences: the government easily won parliamentary elections in May, but the political system lost. (1997)(A Survey of Indonesia) | Business, international | |
| Elspeth Huxley.(novelist and advocate of white rule in Africa)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Emerging Africa.(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Empty threats: Scottish sectarianism. (religious bigotry among soccer fans) | Business, international | |
| Enlarging NATO: why bigger is better.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | Business, international | Madeleine K. Albright |
| Enlightment: flat-screen displays. (light-emitting diodes in computer displays) | Business, international | |
| Enough already: financial disasters. (Orange County, CA) | Business, international | |
| Enter action man. (Chmn of the Joint Chiefs of Staff nominee Gen Henry Shelton)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Enterprise? Tax it. (Cuban tax policy) | Business, international | |
| Enter the Saudis? (World Trade Organization) | Business, international | |
| ET's going home. (science fiction movies are less popular) | Business, international | |
| Euro-division: Germany.(disagreement over European monetary unit) | Business, international | |
| Euro-go-go: the single currency. (European single currency) | Business, international | |
| Eurohoneymoom: at the Amsterdam summit, Tony Blair's love for Europe, and its for him, are about to face their first test. (Great Britain's new prime minister) | Business, international | |
| European airlines scan the arrivals hall. (cut-price airlines attempt to enter European market) | Business, international | |
| European airlines scan the arrivals hall. (rise of low-cost competitors) | Business, international | |
| Europe changes shape. (NATO expansion) | Business, international | |
| Europe hits a brick wall. (labor market reform)(The Politics of Unemployment) | Business, international | |
| Europe isn't working. (problems of unemployment vs. social systems in European governments)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Europe's businesses, yearning to breathe free. (freedom from political interference) | Business, international | |
| Europe's farm follies: the answer to Europe's wasteful and inefficient farm policy is to cut prices and let governments subsidise their farmers themselves.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Europe's fund phobia.(mutual funds) | Business, international | |
| Europe's great car war.(automobile industry) | Business, international | |
| Europe's growth industry: small-company stockmarkets. | Business, international | |
| Europe's mid-life crisis.(European Union Survey) | Business, international | |
| Ever closer union, 40 years on: is Europe suffering a midlife crisis, four decades after the Treaty of Rome that set up the European Economic Community in 1957? | Business, international | |
| Everlasting LIFFE: futures exchanges.(London, England, futures exchange) | Business, international | |
| Everlasting LIFFE. (London International Financial Futures Exchange) | Business, international | |
| Eviction in the city: investment banking. | Business, international | |
| Exaggerated rumours of a death: Krupp and Thyssen. (German steel industry; Krupp-Hoesch thwarts hostile takeover by Thyssen) | Business, international | |
| Executive incomers: Papua New Guinea.(use of mercenary troops) | Business, international | |
| Exercised: share buybacks in Japan. | Business, international | |
| Exit, pursued by a stink: Hong Kong. (immigration minister Lawrence Leung) | Business, international | |
| Expanding ASEAN: a good idea eventually, but not now.(Association of South-East Asian Nations)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Expelled from Eden. (effects of free trade and protectionism on banana industry of St. Lucia) | Business, international | |
| Extraordinary ordinary lives. (French novels and their qualities) | Business, international | |
| Eye to eye. (Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Fabulous and fabless: small firms in Japan. (small manufacturers) | Business, international | |
| Fads on wheels: Japanese cars.(recreational vehicles) | Business, international | |
| Failing to bite the bullet train. (Japanese government's spending policy) | Business, international | |
| Fair shares.(French shareholder activist Sophie L'Helias; Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Fall of the winged messenger: sub-prime lending. (companies that loan money to underqualified borrowers) | Business, international | |
| Fall out, you lot: Turkey. (opposition may topple coalition-led government)(Europe) | Business, international | |
| Familiar sins: the Nomura scandal. (investigation into alleged corrupt activities) | Business, international | |
| Fare trade: quarrels over food safety will blow a hole in free trade unless governments put more trust in science, and in consumers.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Farewell, golden goose. (decrease of foreign investment in the United Kingdom) | Business, international | |
| Fasten your safety belts.(new airline safety standards) | Business, international | |
| Faster towards what? (Middle East peace talks)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Fast track to nowhere. (downside to fast-track trade negotiating authority for Pres. Clinton) | Business, international | Jagdish Bhagwati |
| Fat government, slim hopes: Japan. (plans to downsize government bureaucracy) | Business, international | |
| Father knows: Russian industry. (Uralmash) | Business, international | |
| Federal sham: Ethiopia. (federal political system based on ethnicity) | Business, international | |
| Fed up: American interest rates. | Business, international | |
| Fiddlesticks: corporate taxation.(in United Kingdom) | Business, international | |
| Fidel, the church and capitalism. (Catholic Church and growing market economy in Cuba; Fidel Castro) | Business, international | |
| Fiefs and chiefs: Russia's regions. (regional politics) | Business, international | |
| Fighting the class war. (social classes in England)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Filling the void: the Casimir effect. | Business, international | |
| Final reductions. (organ transplants) | Business, international | |
| First among unequals: African women. (women in politics) | Business, international | |
| First - and second class Jews. | Business, international | |
| First and worst: South Korean banks. (government responds to banking crisis)(Finance and Economics) | Business, international | |
| First come, first served: western water rights. (Wyoming rancher attempts to regain water rights from neighbor) | Business, international | |
| First love, then marriage? Derivatives exchanges. (Europe) | Business, international | |
| Fish and chips: new Indian wars. (negotiations between Native Americans and the government of Wisconsin) | Business, international | |
| Five into NATO won't go: enlarging too far, too fast, could bust the alliance. (Romania's membership should be reconsidered)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Five years' hard Labour?(policies of Britain's Labour Party)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Fix or float, sink or swim? (managing monetary policy) | Business, international | |
| Flash of the Titans: astronomy. (research on gamma ray bursts) | Business, international | |
| Flirting with the future: New Mexico. (economic and social conditions)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Floating away: Polish privatisation. | Business, international | |
| Follow the flag of convenience: shipping. (influence of the International Transport Workers' Federation) | Business, international | |
| Fools' gold. (restructuring of investment-banking industry to produce global banks) | Business, international | |
| Fool's mate: IBM's chess-playing computer may see beating Garry Kasparov as a leap forward for artificial intelligence. Sucker.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| For cattle or schools: state trust lands.(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Foreigners absent: China. (investment in China's stock market) | Business, international | |
| For NATO, eastward ho! (North Atlantic Treaty Organization expansion) | Business, international | |
| For-profit medicine: the travails of America's largest for-profit hospital chain do not prove that profits are bad for health care. (Columbia/HCA Healthcare)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Four takeovers and a wedding: French business. (attempted takeover of Worms & Compagnie; economic changes in France) | Business, international | |
| Fox, hunting: Mexico. (move by Guanajuato governor Vicente Fox to revive the political prominence of the National Action Party) | Business, international | |
| Fragile, handle with care. (banking crises in developing countries)(Survey of Banking in Emerging Markets) | Business, international | |
| France's curious new smile. (approval of French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin) | Business, international | |
| France's hole on the right. (lack of unity on the political right) | Business, international | |
| France's once and future man: the French election. (Prime Minister Alain Juppe) | Business, international | |
| France still trapped.(election of Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin) | Business, international | |
| France still trapped. (Lionel Jospin seen unlikely to deliver reform) | Business, international | |
| Frank Launder. (comedic film director)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Fred Thompson's Chinese show. (senator holds hearings on possible campaign finance violations)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Free at last? (status of women in Japan) | Business, international | |
| Freedom fighters: Canadian finance. (mergers and takeovers) | Business, international | |
| Freedom, guns and women. (National Rifle Assn's appeal to women)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Freedom in the air: airlines.(European deregulation) | Business, international | |
| Free the banks.(allowing banks to buy shares)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| French blows its horn. (unity of French-speaking nations) | Business, international | |
| French flight: European aerospace. (consolidation of European aerospace activities into a single company) | Business, international | |
| Fresh start? India and Pakistan. | Business, international | |
| Friend or foe? How America sees China. | Business, international | |
| Friends and foes. (Iran's relations with other countries)(Iran Survey) | Business, international | |
| Friends and neighbours. (British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Fritz Leutwiler. (Swiss banking official)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| From angst to action? (U.S. Federal Reserve Board and interest rates) | Business, international | |
| From Armageddon to animation: the Los Alamos National Laboratory.(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| From boots to electronics. (analysis of base conversion strategies) | Business, international | |
| From circuits to packets: will the Internet steal the telephone business? (Telecommunications Survey) | Business, international | |
| From defiance to dismay: Arizona. (fraud case against Governor J. Fife Symington III) | Business, international | |
| From Marx, maybe to market. (transition to capitalism)(Russia Survey) | Business, international | |
| From Oberto to Falstaff: putting on anything and everything by Verdi. (London's Verdi festival) | Business, international | |
| Fujimori against El Nino. (Peruvian Pres Alberto Fujimori's preventive efforts against natural disaster) | Business, international | |
| Fujimori under fire. (Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori) | Business, international | |
| Fujimori wins. (Peruvian Pres. Alberto Fujimori crushes rebel siege of embassy) | Business, international | |
| Full house: prisons. (dealing with record number of UK prisoners) | Business, international | |
| Full speed ahead: Northern Ireland. (peace talks) | Business, international | |
| Fun for the masses: Americans worry that the distribution of income is increasingly unequal. Examining leisure spending changes that picture. (Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Future imperfect. (Chicago, Illinois futures market trading practices) | Business, international | |
| Gambling on William Hague. | Business, international | |
| Gambling with red chips: Hong Kong's handover. (to China) | Business, international | |
| Games without frontiers: Belarus. (relations with Russia) | Business, international | |
| Ganesh Man Singh. (political leader in Nepal)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Garbage in, garbage out: charging families for each bag of rubbish they produce seems environmentally sound and economically sensible.(Economics Focus) | Business, international | |
| Gary Bauer and the virtue deficit. (Family Research Council head)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Generals' preferences. (military-civil relations)(A Survey of Indonesia) | Business, international | |
| Genes and T-shirts: selling information rather than drugs is the key to making swift profits in biotechnology. Or so Kevin Kinsella believes.(Column) | Business, international | |
| Gene Shoemaker. (self-taught astronomer dies on July 18, 1997 at age 69)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| George Bush's gamble: the Texas budget. (Texas Governor George Bush)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| German fears about EMU.(European Monetary Union) | Business, international | |
| Germany makes haste slowly. (problems with economic reform) | Business, international | |
| Germany's battered bulldozer. (Chancellor Helmut Kohl's coalition government)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Germany's eastward urge. | Business, international | |
| Germany's squelchy outlook. (economic and political problems) | Business, international | |
| Get out. (paedophilia and paranoia in the United Kingdom) | Business, international | |
| Get real: Japanese property. (real estate investment) | Business, international | |
| Getting out of a fix. (exchange rates of Southeast Asia currencies; Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Giants go hunting.(merger between Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter, Discover) | Business, international | |
| Gimme a job: Germany. (unemployment) | Business, international | |
| Giving a dog a bad name: Louisiana politics. | Business, international | |
| Giving an inch: Russia's energy monopolies. | Business, international | |
| Glass with attitude. (diamond industry) | Business, international | |
| Global economy, local mayhem? Rioting strikers in South Korea, France, Argentina and elsewhere are not a sign that "globalisation" is a disaster.(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Global warming meets the prodigal eagle. (lack of U.S. commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions) | Business, international | |
| Go forth and multiply: local restrictions permitting. (Survey: Fund Management) | Business, international | |
| Going ape: Sterling and the ERM.(effect of the withdrawal of the British pound from the European exchange-rate mechanism) | Business, international | |
| Going for broke: Myanmar. (joins Association of South-East Asian Nations) | Business, international | |
| Going, going ... Bulgaria and Serbia: diehards in both Balkan countries are fighting losing battles as they gasp to keep themselves in power. | Business, international | |
| Going, going ... on-line auctions. (Internet auctions) | Business, international | |
| Going it alone: multinationals in China. (foreign companies venturing into China without partnerships) | Business, international | |
| Going up: Frank Gehry and Disney Hall. (architect) | Business, international | |
| Golden goals. (football as big business) | Business, international | |
| Golden handshake: South Africa. (gold mines lay off workers) | Business, international | |
| Goldfingering: European Union. (Germany hedges on achieving Maastricht debt, deficit ceilings) | Business, international | |
| Gold fleeced? Israeli business. (Stanley Gold, president of Shamrock Holdings says company is selling some of its investments in Koor, an Israeli company) | Business, international | |
| Goodbye, federal Europe? | Business, international | |
| Good intentions turned to shame. (intervention of the United Nations in Somalian affairs) | Business, international | |
| Gotterdammerung postponed. (publishers ignore doom-and-gloom prophecies, foresee bright future for books) (Frankfurt Book Fair) | Business, international | |
| Grabbing a slice of Sky's pie. (BSkyB competes for digital television market in the UK) | Business, international | |
| Grease is good: oil refining. | Business, international | |
| Grease or sand: America's inflation rate is low and stable. This has rekindled an old debate over the benefits of price stability. (Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Great, big puppies: dog behaviour. | Business, international | |
| Great game, awful risks: extracting oil from the Caspian. | Business, international | |
| Green, as in greenbacks.(coffee trade in Costa Rica) | Business, international | |
| Green is good. (economic expansion in Ireland)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Greens v genes. (European environmentalists sustain an enormous loss as European Parliament approves continent-wide patents on genetic inventions) | Business, international | |
| Greeting the dragon. (U.S. relations with China)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Grey imperative. (aging population's influence of pension fund management)(Japanese Finance Survey) | Business, international | |
| Groovy: reviving LPs. (laser device is able to read music tracks from records) | Business, international | |
| Ground control: it has made a good start, but the European Commission could do more to cut the price of air travel.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Growing: French gardens. (kitchen gardens) | Business, international | |
| Growing pains: children in prison.(Brief Article) | Business, international | |
| Gulf citizen, no qualifications, seeks well-paid job. (unemployment among countries of the Gulf Co-Operation Council) | Business, international | |
| Hair apparent: Russia.(Anatoly Chubais named first deputy prime minister) | Business, international | |
| Half a cheer, if Algeria doesn't cheat. (parliamentary election) | Business, international | |
| Hamburgers and hernias. (hospital management practices; Management Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Hammer houses of horror. (Christie's and Sotheby's art auction houses) | Business, international | |
| Hands across the Andes: Chile and Argentina. (defense spending cooperation) | Business, international | |
| Hands in the till: Indian housing. (abuses of federal housing programs for Native Americans)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Hands off: monetary policy. (independence of Bank of England) | Business, international | |
| Hands off the Internet. (Pres Bill Clinton urges minimal governnment intervention in Internet transactions) | Business, international | |
| Happy anniversary? (politics and economy of India)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Happy birthday to HAL: artificial intelligence. (computer from the book '2001') | Business, international | |
| Hard times. (economic conditions)(Iran Survey) | Business, international | |
| Heading for the hills: Japan's capital. (efforts to move Japan's seat of government to another city)(Asia) | Business, international | |
| Hebron's bitter heritage.(violence against Palestinians in Hebron, Israel) | Business, international | |
| Helen Snow. (journalist)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Hello, Dolly.(sheep is first mammal to be cloned)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Here, of all places: Nordic eugenics. (eugenics laws of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) | Business, international | |
| High hopes fade in Congo. (after fall of Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko) | Business, international | |
| Highway to heaven? Intelligent roads. | Business, international | |
| Hi ho, hi ho, down the data mine we go. (direct marketing) | Business, international | |
| His next trick: Gordon Brown hopes to reform fiscal policy as radically as he has monetary policy; that will prove harder. (British Chancellor Gordon Brown) | Business, international | |
| Hogs' halt: agriculture. (pig farming in North Carolina) | Business, international | |
| Holding together, better than most: family life. (the American family)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Hold your breath: Albania. (coalition government takes over, but rebels remain a powerful force) | Business, international | |
| Hold your breath: Albania.(elections) | Business, international | |
| Hold your breath. (political situation of Albania after presidential election) | Business, international | |
| Hollywood's fading charms. (filmmaking industry) | Business, international | |
| Holy love-in: France. (international Roman Catholic youth rally in Paris) | Business, international | |
| Home alone. (defense industry in Japan)(A Survey of the Global Defence Industry) | Business, international | |
| Home, sweet home? (investments in developing countries)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Hong Kong prepares for a party. | Business, international | |
| Hope, and danger, for ethnic Albanians. | Business, international | |
| Hope at last: Bulgaria. (economic reforms) | Business, international | |
| Hope at the polls? (elections in the former Yugoslavia)(Europe) | Business, international | |
| Horrible truth revealed: the stockmarket has delivered a damning verdict on Japanese banks. But there is probably worse to come. | Business, international | |
| Hot all over. (state of American stockmarkets) | Business, international | |
| House hopping: Serbia. (confusion over future elections and candidates) | Business, international | |
| Houses of cards: American banks.(Banc One's controversial acquisition of First USA INc.) | Business, international | |
| How (and why) to find a needle in a haystack. (how DNA proteins find their binding sites) | Business, international | |
| Howard's end? (former United Kingdom Home Secretary Michael Howard) | Business, international | |
| How art can entertain. (the BBC Promenade Concerts; London, England) | Business, international | |
| How Bill became Larry: the network computer. (Bill Gates of Microsoft Corp.; Larry Ellison of Oracle Corp.) | Business, international | |
| How Brahms saved music from Wagner: was Johannes Brahms, who died 100 years ago on April 3rd, the true father of modern music? | Business, international | |
| How far is down? (failure to correct Asian currency troubles could mean long-term trouble for markets worldwide) | Business, international | |
| How high? (Bank of England raises interest rate) | Business, international | |
| How Hong Kong can change China.(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| How new a man is Kabila? (Laurent Kabila, leader of new Democratic Republic of Congo) | Business, international | |
| How reassuring: Hong Kong. (China appoints English-educated Andrew Li as chief justice in Hong Kong) | Business, international | |
| How safe is your airline?(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| How the French get their choice. (political parties competing in France's National Assembly election) | Business, international | |
| How to be a green rancher: the defence of nature 1. (oryx ranch in Texas)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| How to cut the cost of politics. (by limiting political advertising in broadcast media)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| How to pay for the NHS. (U.K.'s National Health Service)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| How to remake a city. (business growth in Los Angeles, CA) | Business, international | |
| Hydrophobia: Canadian nuclear power. (power utility Ontario Hydro) | Business, international | |
| If at first you don't succeed....: the Simpson verdict. (civil lawsuit against O.J. Simpson) | Business, international | |
| If he walks like a lame duck.... (failure of Clinton administration to lobby effectively for passage of 'fast-track' trade legislation) | Business, international | |
| Ill health all around in Ukraine. (poor economic conditions) | Business, international | |
| Imploding star: Indian finance. | Business, international | |
| Inactive workers, inactive Congress: Brazil. (stalemate over pension reform) | Business, international | |
| In and out.(Israeli Attorney General Ronni Bar-On resigns after three days in office) | Business, international | |
| In defence of Newt. (Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| India looks east. (budget changes should bring India closer to other Asian economies) | Business, international | |
| India's chaos-as-usual politics: will the Congress Party ever govern India again? | Business, international | |
| India's next 50 years. (state of India after 50th anniversary of its independence)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| India's old man in a hurry: Sitaram Kesri's grab for power does no credit to him or his party.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Indonesia's Uncle Bob.(Mohamad Hasan)(Face Value) | Business, international | |
| Inflated claims? (airbags improvements) | Business, international | |
| In-flight politics: British Airways/American Airlines. | Business, international | |
| In-line skating in the 4x4. (capitalizing trademarked terms in English) | Business, international | |
| In love with regulation. (government regulation in the United States)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| In one ear and out the other: music and speech. | Business, international | |
| In our genes? (Neanderthal DNA) | Business, international | |
| In praise of Davos Man: how businessmen may accidentally be making the world safer.(World Economic Forum)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| In praise of one-man bands. ('boutique' consultancies)(Management Consultancy Survey) | Business, international | |
| In search of alchemy: the chemicals industry. (Unilever's decision to divest) | Business, international | |
| In search of satisfaction: what China, and others, can do to find it.(Survey China) | Business, international | |
| In search of the mouse potato.(managing America Online; Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Inside story. (dominance of family firms)(A Survey of Business in Latin America) | Business, international | |
| Inside the belly of the beast. (campaign finance abuse investigations)(United States) | Business, international | |
| Inside the knowledge factory. (university autonomy from governmental influence)(A Survey of Universities) | Business, international | |
| Instant coffee as management theory.(Management Focus) | Business, international | |
| Insurance and the Holocaust: life insurance was a favourite investment of European Jews before the second world war. Where are those policies now? | Business, international | |
| Integrated but unequal.(UK has less social segregation but more discrimination in employment than US) | Business, international | |
| Interior decoration: Yemen. (1997 election) | Business, international | |
| In the dumps: waste management. (companies) | Business, international | |
| In the land of milk and money. (merger between Credit Suisse and Winterthur)(includes a related article on Swiss firms key in financial restructuring) | Business, international | |
| In the same party, you said? (Republican Senator Jesse Helms vs. Republican ambassor-elect William Weld) | Business, international | |
| In the vanguard: trainers, sneakers and shoes.(Nike and athletic shoe market) | Business, international | |
| Intimate magnificence: theatrical drama up close. (relationship between actors and audience) | Business, international | |
| Into the lion's den: free trade. (fast-track authority) | Business, international | |
| Into the woods: the Oklahoma City trial. (1995 Oklahoma City, OK, terrorist bombing)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Intoxicated by power: is the world's electricity business setting itself up for a profit cut? | Business, international | |
| Investing in growth. (need for more public investment)(India Survey) | Business, international | |
| Investment brown-out. (analysis of UK fiscal policy) | Business, international | |
| Investment brown-out. (UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's new budget)(97 Budget)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Investors, unite. (Fund Management Survey) | Business, international | Brian Barry |
| In your face: the future of television.(digital television) | Business, international | |
| Ion Cioaba. (self proclaimed 'King of all the Gypsies Everywhere')(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Iran in the dock. (relations with Iran)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Iran's new face. (Pres Muhammad Khatami)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Ireland shines. (economic resurgence)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Is France still exceptional? French governments' traditional fear of political violence in the street is hard to reconcile with the country's need to modernise its economy. | Business, international | |
| Is Hong Kong ripe for a bit of central planning? (Chinese rule) | Business, international | |
| Is it a bird? Is it a manager? (Swedish executive Percy Barnevik) | Business, international | |
| Is it for real? (economic reform in Brazil) | Business, international | |
| Is it over? (emerging economies in East Asia) | Business, international | |
| Is Kohl in control? (Germany's Helmut Kohl)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Islam and the ballot box. (Muhammad Khatami elected president of Iran)(International) | Business, international | |
| Israel intransigent. (peace process in Israel)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Israel's gamble: the Palestinians. (housing settlements) | Business, international | |
| Is Russia going wrong?(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Is there life after steel? (analysis of Broken Hill Proprietary plans to close Newcastle steel plant) | Business, international | |
| Italians turn the tables.(Italian cuisine out ranking French) | Business, international | |
| Italy's buffeted survivor.(Prime Minister Romano Prodi) | Business, international | |
| Italy struggles for stability. | Business, international | |
| Italy's unfinished revolution: the faces have changed, the institutions are still the same.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| It'll be a shock; electricity in Europe. (competition and deregulation) | Business, international | |
| It needed a bit of tidying up: three-strikes legislation.(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| It's a crush: the convention business. | Business, international | |
| It's good for you: Czech Republic.(austerity measures) | Business, international | |
| It's got to fit somehow. (proposed merger between Credit Suisse and Winterthur) | Business, international | |
| Its nuts and bolts: democracy in Africa. | Business, international | |
| It's still not easy: reprieved from execution. (former death row inmate Dennis Williams) | Business, international | |
| It's the game that counts: blue-marlin fishing. | Business, international | |
| It's the government, stupid. (the World Bank's 'World Development Report') | Business, international | |
| It's wise to deindustrialise. (Economics Focus) | Business, international | |
| Jack Straw's balancing act. (UK home secretary)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Jacques Foccart.(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Jam today, road pricing tomorrow. (solving increasing automobile traffic congestion)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Japan's aged plotters. (split in Liberal Democratic Party in Japan) | Business, international | |
| Japan's war with China, revisited. | Business, international | |
| Japan to the rescue. (South-East Asia's struggling economy) | Business, international | |
| Jeanne Calment. (world's oldest person dies)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Jimmy Goldsmith. (politician and business tycoon)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Johannesburgers and fries: McDonald's efforts to break into South Africa suggest that multinationals can rely too heavily on their powerful brands. | Business, international | |
| Johnny Appleseed.com.(entrepreneur Bill Gross)(Face Value) | Business, international | |
| John Redwood's bumpy pitch. (British politician)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Join the world: Latin American business must, in its own way, play the global game. (A Survey of Business in Latin America) | Business, international | |
| Jon Stone. ('Sesame Street' producer)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Jordan asks for more: water politics. (water-supply dispute between Jordan and Israel) | Business, international | |
| Judges, suicide, and the resurgence of the states. | Business, international | |
| Judging the Booker Prize. (British literary award) | Business, international | |
| Judgment day: building societies. | Business, international | |
| Just adduce water: Europa. (space probe Galileo's observations of this moon of Jupiter) | Business, international | |
| Just desserts: prisons in America. | Business, international | |
| Justice for genocide, Rwandan-style.(war crimes tribunals) | Business, international | |
| Justice in Bosnia: pursuing war criminals like Radovan Karadzic is risky, but right. | Business, international | |
| Just something I learned in America: can a mixture of American management style and homegrown technological wizardry rejuvenate German industry?(Face Value) | Business, international | |
| Just what the doctors ordered? The Mexican currency crisis of 1995 led to prescriptions intended to keep financial panic from infecting emerging markets. They have not done the job. | Business, international | |
| Just what the patient ordered.(financial advice on mutual funds) | Business, international | |
| Just what the president ordered: Algeria. (outcome of recent elections) | Business, international | |
| Kabila's choice: will he try to give Zaire a new start, or more of the same? (Laurent Kabila)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Kabila sends a message to the world: "Buzz off." (Congo leader Laurent Kabila) | Business, international | |
| Kanji and kana on the Internet. (non-English languages)(The Economist Review) | Business, international | |
| Keeping in step: at the last Hong Kong film festival of its kind, our film reviewer discovers that Asian cinema is marking time. | Business, international | |
| Keeping the dirt at bay.(UK elections)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Keeping the faith: letter from Sotome. (Christianity in Japan) | Business, international | |
| Keep polishing: Apple Computer. | Business, international | |
| Kia keels over: South Korea's firms. (South Korea's protectionist stance fails to rescue automaker Kia from bankruptcy) | Business, international | |
| Kicking and screaming into 1999. (introduction of the single European currency) | Business, international | |
| Kicking the kickbacks: corruption. | Business, international | |
| Kids' stuff. (Calpers introduces corporate management guidelines) | Business, international | |
| Knotted: textile trade.(negotiating free trade in the textile industry) | Business, international | |
| Kohldom creaks: Germany.(political future of German chancellor Helmut Kohl) | Business, international | |
| Kohl rejects suicide. (political suicide; German President Helmut Kohl) | Business, international | |
| Korea's twin crises. | Business, international | |
| Labour doesn't deserve it. (UK's Labour Party; May 1997 general elections)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Labouring the point. (research on unemployment in France)(Economics Focus) | Business, international | |
| Labour pains: the National Health Service. (United Kingdom) | Business, international | |
| Labour's Hogg roast. (censure of UK Agricultural Minister Douglas Hogg) | Business, international | |
| Labour's summer victory. (United Parcel Service strike ends) | Business, international | |
| Labour's weight: South Africa. | Business, international | |
| Labour turns to the city. (UK Chancellor Gordon Brown seeks to reform financial regulation, a welcome change)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Lady luck in trouble: the Texas lottery. | Business, international | |
| Land of the giants. (defense industry in the US)(A Survey of the Global Defence Industry)(Industry Overview) | Business, international | |
| Land rights, land wrongs: Brazil. (Movimento Sem Terra land rights movement) | Business, international | |
| Landscape or animals first? Wild-life conservation. | Business, international | |
| Laptops from Lapland. (Acer Computers' foray into Russian market) | Business, international | |
| Last chance for Kohl? (German chancellor Helmut Kohl)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Last chance in Pakistan: if Nawaz Sharif does not acquit himself well, the new prime minister may be signing Pakistani democracy's death warrant. | Business, international | |
| Last chapter: the East European shtetl. (the demise of Ukraine's Jewish settlements) | Business, international | |
| Last gasp for first past the post? (electoral reform in the UK)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Last rights. (analysis of 'right to die' laws)(includes related article)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Latin America's other hostages.(hostages in Colombia) | Business, international | |
| Launching devolution. (Labour Party's plan to decentralize the British government)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Laurie Lee. (author and explorer dies on May 13, 1997 at age 82)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| L'avenir c'est moi.(Ernest-Antoine Seilliere, CEO of Compagnie Generale d'Industrie et de Participations; Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Law and grief: privacy. (self-regulation versus government regulation of newspapers in the United Kingdom) | Business, international | |
| Lawless: Russia.(criminal justice system) | Business, international | |
| Leaderless Russia: the continuing bad health of Russia's president may mean another election - sooner rather than later. (Pres. Boris Yeltsin: includes result of a survey of Russian citizens) | Business, international | |
| Leading by example. (devolution of Scotland)(By Invitation)(Column) | Business, international | Donald Dewar |
| Leaky policy: water shortages. (in UK) | Business, international | |
| Learning to love the EU.(European Union Survey) | Business, international | |
| Learning to pay: universities. (tuition fees for UK schools) | Business, international | |
| Learning to play the game: American economists said that auctions would be the most efficient way to allocate the radio spectrum. But was the bidding rigged? (Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Lee Kuan Yew: an apology. (Singapore's senior minister)(Asia) | Business, international | |
| Leftovers. (British treatment of its colonies) | Business, international | |
| Legacy of genocide. (fighting continues in Rwanda and Burundi) | Business, international | |
| Lessons from Louise. (media influence on jury trials with examples from murder trial of au pair Louise Woodward)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Lessons learnt: education white paper.(Brief Article) | Business, international | |
| Less separate, more equal.(immigrants in Western Europe) | Business, international | |
| Let battle commence: Australian media. (ownership rules under review) | Business, international | |
| Let the market take off. (airlines power over their landing slots at airports)(Economic Focus) | Business, international | |
| Let them be friends; there is little to fear in Russia's new "partnership" with China.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Let the party begin. (privatization in Brazil) | Business, international | |
| Liberating Zaire is the easy bit; changing the country's ways could be Laurent Kabila's greater problem. (rebel leader)(International) | Business, international | |
| Lies, damned lies, and ... statistics. (proposal by the US Census Bureau to use statistical sampling in its census activities in the year 2000) | Business, international | |
| Lifebelts on: Asian currency jitters. | Business, international | |
| Light headed: computing random numbers. | Business, international | |
| Light on the shadows. (underground economy) | Business, international | |
| Limited mileage: why are so many new drivers taking the wheel at America's battered car-rental companies? | Business, international | |
| Linking arms.(A Survey of the Global Defence Industry) | Business, international | |
| Lionel Jospin, equilibriste. (French prime minister's proposal to reduce budget deficit) | Business, international | |
| Lionel Jospin's soggy programme. | Business, international | |
| Little becomes even yes: Israel and the Arab world. | Business, international | |
| Living with Big Brother.(Survey China) | Business, international | |
| Locked out or priced out? Race and housing. | Business, international | |
| Logging on: Cambodia. | Business, international | |
| Long shadows. (European insurers involved in World War II insurance claims) | Business, international | |
| Looking for legitimacy: European Parliament. | Business, international | |
| Looking to join the caravan: how fantastic are North Africa's dreams of becoming the next promising emerging market? | Business, international | |
| Looking towards change. (social and political change)(Iran Survey) | Business, international | |
| Look, no dissidents: all critics have been silenced.(Survey China) | Business, international | |
| Loose wiring: banking. (drawbacks to international electronic transfer service offered by banks) | Business, international | |
| Losing the Midas touch: prospecting in Indonesia. | Business, international | |
| Lost in the Golan Heights.(Israel-Syria negotiations) | Business, international | |
| Lovely while it lasts. (spiraling world stockmarkets)(Leaders)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Low returns, happy returns: international investment if in fashion. Should governments limit pension funds' holdings of foreign assets?(Economic Focus) | Business, international | |
| Lucky Larry: CITIC Pacific.(Larry Yung, CEO of Hong-Kong based CITIC Pacific) | Business, international | |
| Madeleine s'en va-t-en guerre. (Secretary of State Madeleine Albright) | Business, international | |
| Magda Denes.(psychoanalyst)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Maggots cure: folk remedies. | Business, international | |
| Mahathir, Soros and the currency markets: amoral maybe, but currency speculators are both necessary and productive. (Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia; financial speculator George Soros) | Business, international | |
| Mahathir's roasting. (Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad) | Business, international | |
| Making a business of the big buffet: Internet service providers. | Business, international | |
| Making it in Monterrey. (companies in Monterrey, Mexico)(A Survey of Business in Latin America) | Business, international | |
| Making it work: unemployment policy. (attempting to end long-term unemployment in the UK) | Business, international | |
| Making strategy. (business strategy)(Management Focus) | Business, international | |
| Malaysia's misdiagnosis: in blaming foreigners for the woes of Asian currencies, the Malaysian prime minister is avoiding the real issues. (Mahathir Mohamad)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Malign malentendus. (analysis of Franco-American relations) | Business, international | |
| Malign malentendus: rows between France and America are damaging NATO. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)(Leaders)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Management theory's true believers. (Protestant sect, the Bruderhof, which uses management theories to conduct business) | Business, international | |
| Manuel Elizalde. (anthropologist/philanthropist dies on May 3, 1997 at age 60)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Many happy returns: performance is all, or is it? (Survey: Fund Management) | Business, international | |
| Many mountains still to climb. (economic reform)(A Survey of Italy) | Business, international | Matthew Bishop |
| Map-making, again: former Yugoslavia.(elections in serb-held Eastern Slavonia, Croatia) | Business, international | |
| Markets go global: will market forces shrink the state? (A Survey of the World Economy) | Business, international | |
| Markets on the make.(stock exchanges in developing countries)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Mark Neumann, the Republican hothead. (U.S. Congressman)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Marshall music: Europe and America. (post-World War II Marshall plan discussed at meeting between Pres Clinton and Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok) | Business, international | |
| Martin's turn? (Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin Jr.'s political ambitions) | Business, international | |
| Master of the bar: Grand Metropolitan and Guinness. (merger within liquor industry) | Business, international | |
| Mathilde the mysterious: asteroids. | Business, international | |
| Matsushita's Chinese burn. (investments in China; Management Brief) | Business, international | |
| Mayhem: Algeria. (village massacres) | Business, international | |
| Mayor culpa. (reelection possibilities for New York mayor William Bratton) | Business, international | |
| Mea culpa, and all that. (apologies and political culture) | Business, international | |
| Meanwhile, back where the wagons are circling.... (government responses to worsening downturn in Asian economies) | Business, international | |
| Mercky waters. (Merck, the pharmaceutical company) | Business, international | |
| Merger Monday. (proposed mergers in Europe announced on October 13, 1997) | Business, international | |
| Merging markets.(Survey of Banking in Emerging Markets) | Business, international | |
| Meta-Moore-phosis: chip technology. (developing microprocessor chips) | Business, international | |
| Methodical progress: applying the scientific method to the processes of science can be illuminating. | Business, international | |
| Mexico enters the era of politics. | Business, international | |
| Mexico's new frontier.(northern states prospering) | Business, international | |
| Michael Manley.(former prime minister of Jamaica; also former Guyanan Pres Cheddi Jagan)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Michelin gets a grip. (reorganization by tire firm)(Company Profile) | Business, international | |
| Midfield maestro. (Donald Dewar, British Labor Party's chief whip in the House of Commons)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Miles to go to Amsterdam: the central task for the European Union is to ready itself for new members.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Militias and messiahs. (militia and cult commonalities)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Minor mogul. (Halsey Minor, founder and head of CNET; Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Mir on earth: Russian cars. (defective Russian cars) | Business, international | |
| Mishap in the operating theatre: American health care. | Business, international | |
| Missile to queen's rook four. (defense industry) | Business, international | |
| Misunderstood: young offenders. | Business, international | |
| Mitch McConnell, money-man. (Republican senator's views on campaign financing)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Mixed omens: Germany. (local elections) | Business, international | |
| Moderates. | Business, international | |
| Modern architecture is back. (expansion of the New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art) | Business, international | |
| Monarchs and mountebanks. (royal families and claimants to royal titles) | Business, international | |
| Money-go-round: financial regulation. (formation of Securities and Investments Board to regulate industry) | Business, international | |
| Money talks. (post-communist banking system)(Business in Eastern Europe Survey) | Business, international | |
| Monkey business? Scandal and the second term.(Bill Clinton) | Business, international | |
| Monumental conservative ironies. (support of national pride by conservatives)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| More defenestrations in Prague: Vaclav Klaus's Czech model of economic reform has won plaudits from fans of free markets. It is time for a reassessment.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| More fireworks: European Union. (Luxembourg takes up presidency of EU in July 1997) | Business, international | |
| More flexible shortlists, please: reforming the Oscars.(Academy Award nominations) | Business, international | |
| More in store. (retailing industry expected to grow in Britain)(includes related article) | Business, international | |
| More turbulence ahead: Asian currencies. (Finance and Economics) | Business, international | |
| Mortal after all: Brazil. (President Fernando Henrique Cardosa encounters resistance to his modernization plan)(International) | Business, international | |
| Mostly harmless: atom lasers. (quantum physics research) | Business, international | |
| Motherhood and the menopause. (research on aging and giving birth) | Business, international | |
| Mother Teresa.(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Mountains still to climb. (planning for the European Monetary Union)(includes related article) | Business, international | |
| Mourning has broken: North Korea. | Business, international | |
| Mr. Blair's million. (campaign finance scandal in United Kingdom) (Prime Minister Tony Blair)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Mr Brown serves up a surprise; Britain's reform of financial regulation is certainly bold. Is it smart? (Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown) | Business, international | |
| Mr Brown's surprise package. (forecasting Gordon Brown's budget in the UK) | Business, international | |
| Mr Clean for president - maybe. (former Colombian Prosecutor-General Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento) | Business, international | |
| Mr Davies's NewROses: the city. (United Kingdom's New Regulatory Organization)(Finance and Economics) | Business, international | |
| Mr Formula One: many media barons have become sports barons. Bernie Ecclestone is trying to do the reverse.(Face Value) | Business, international | |
| Mr Knowledge: America's management industry needs a champion for its latest buzzword. (Ikujiro Nonaka)(Face Value) | Business, international | |
| Mrs. Watanabe, mind your fingers: Japanese bonds. | Business, international | |
| Mr tough guy. (Labour Party economic policymaker Gordon Brown) | Business, international | |
| Mumeo Oku. (Japanese politician)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Muscling in on the banking business: Latin America. (foreign investments) | Business, international | |
| Musical chairs: Northern Ireland. (peace talks with Britain) | Business, international | |
| Name games: marketing energy. (oil company Union Pacific Resources' attempt to acquire Pennzoil) | Business, international | |
| NATO goes a-wooing. (Russia angered by plans for expansion)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Nature, nurture and growth. (globalization includes challenges of dealing with geographically disadvantaged countries) | Business, international | Jeffrey Sachs |
| Nature rarely repeats itself. (earthquake prediction in Japan) | Business, international | |
| NatWest holed: investment banking. (poor financial performance and recent trading fiasco) | Business, international | |
| Nawaz the bold: Pakistan.(Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif) | Business, international | |
| Neck and neck: Sinn Fein. (Irish politics) | Business, international | |
| Neighbors.(Mexico and the U.S. - fighting drugs)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Neighbours of Hercules: why Greek tunics are back. (popular revival of the classics) | Business, international | |
| Netanyahu at bay. (scandal plagues Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu) | Business, international | |
| Never mind the quality: ASEAN.(Association of South East Asian Nations) | Business, international | |
| Never mind the quality. (Japanese Finance Survey) | Business, international | |
| Never mind those Ms: if Europe does achieve monetary union at the start of 1999, how should its new money be managed? | Business, international | |
| Never too old to lead? (India politician Sitaram Kesri) | Business, international | |
| New crises, new rules. (proposal for banking standards in emerging countries)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| New illness, same old medicine. (perspectives on results of International Monetary Fund's bailout of Southeast Asian economies) | Business, international | |
| New Labour, new old lady: the promise of Britain's Labour Party to give more power to the Bank of England does not go far enough to ensure lower inflation.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| New Labour's model army. (British military policy) | Business, international | |
| New tricks: Japan. (economy) | Business, international | |
| Next steps in Hong Kong. (after handover to China) | Business, international | |
| Nice picture. Where to next? (financing space exploration) | Business, international | |
| Nigeria imperatrix: Sierra Leone. | Business, international | |
| Nigeria the savior? (Nigerian peacekeeping force restores democracy in Sierra Leone) | Business, international | |
| No confidence: Israel. (Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu losing his grip on office) | Business, international | |
| No deposit, no return: amyloid plaques. | Business, international | |
| Noel Browne.(Irish doctor and renegade politician)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Noel Keane.(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| No end in sight: Switzerland and the Jewish gold. (lawsuits against Swiss banks holding assets belonging to Holocaust victims)(includes a list of countries other than Switzerland investigating Holocaust victim assets) | Business, international | |
| No joke: African stockmarkets. | Business, international | |
| No need to start snoring: new German films. | Business, international | |
| No part-time job explosion. (economics and United Parcel Service strike) | Business, international | |
| No pastures new: nomads. (struggle for land and water in drought-ravished northern Kenya) | Business, international | |
| No room, no room. (toll roads to control automobile traffic congestion)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| No room. (potential housing crunch as developers unsuccessfully seek new areas for construction) | Business, international | |
| Northern exposure. (A Survey of Italy) | Business, international | |
| No sex, please, we're plants. (asexual reproduction in plants) | Business, international | |
| Not all bull. (performance of emerging stock markets) | Business, international | |
| Not by Helms alone. (Senator Jesse Helms)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Not fair. (economic disparity)(A Survey of Indonesia) | Business, international | |
| Nothing is really private in Vietnam. | Business, international | |
| Not hopeless: Bosnia. (peace process) | Business, international | |
| Not Moore's Law: magnetic storage. (semiconductor engineer Gordon Moore) | Business, international | |
| Not old against young, but rich against poor. (social spending in the U.S.) | Business, international | |
| Not quite a new world order, more a three-way split. (modern foreign relations) | Business, international | |
| Not quite magic. (World Trade Organization agreement to open telecommunications markets in 69 countries) | Business, international | |
| Not so tough: the economy. (Gordon Brown's new budget for the UK)(97 Budget)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Not that good: Turkey's economy. | Business, international | |
| Not this again, please. (trade gap between the United States and Japan)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Now another go at self-reform. (Russia) | Business, international | |
| Now for a queer question about gay culture. Homosexuality is becoming increasingly accepted - even welcomed - in some countries. Does that spell the end of a distinctive gay culture? | Business, international | |
| Now for the rest of the banquet: Taiwan. (China and Taiwan) | Business, international | |
| Now reveal yourself.(new UK Prime Minister Tony Blair)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Now you see it, now you don't; Eastern Europe's new prosperity is real enough, but it defies definition. (Business in Eastern Europe Survey) | Business, international | |
| Nuclear blackmail: Western governments need to reconsider their pledge to finance new reactors for Ukraine in return for the closure of the Chernobyl plant.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Odd men in: German jobs. | Business, international | |
| Of cigarettes and silicone: product liability. | Business, international | |
| Of crashes and conspirators. (Southeast Asian economy; Thailand) | Business, international | |
| Of greyhounds and gangsters: letter from Macau. | Business, international | |
| Of mice and men. (history of Silicon Valley)(Silicon Valley, CA) | Business, international | |
| Of politicians and piggybanks: do tax breaks boost savings?(Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Of scandals and teacups: the bad and not-so-bad in America's fundraising mess.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Of soloists and session men.(jazz greats) | Business, international | |
| Oh, aubergine: Turkish cuisine. | Business, international | |
| Oh, for the old Cadillac days: the Philippines. (the island of Negros is tied to the sugar industry) | Business, international | |
| Oh, well: privatisation in Russia. | Business, international | |
| Oh what a miserable life. (life insurance industry in Japan) | Business, international | |
| O'Keeffe eclipses Stieglitz. (husband and wife artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz) | Business, international | |
| Okinawa's rethink: Japan. (reconsideration of the expulsion of American military bases) | Business, international | |
| Old McDonald had a Web site: the Internet has some growing up to do before it has much to offer kids. | Business, international | |
| Once it's here ... nobody would invent the World Bank in today's circumstances. To become more useful, it needs to do less.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Once more with feeling.(Internet-enabled television) | Business, international | |
| Once there were four: Japanese securities firms. (scandals rock firms) | Business, international | |
| On course, probably: has the Japanese government's tightening of fiscal policy really doomed the economy to slow growth? (Economic Focus) | Business, international | |
| One battle over, on to the next. (Israeli-Palestinian agreement over Hebron, West Bank) | Business, international | |
| One man band? (analyzing Tony Blair's potential cabinet) | Business, international | |
| One man to save the planet. (political activist John Francis) | Business, international | |
| One more push. (India's economic reforms)(India Survey) | Business, international | |
| One river, one country: at the eastern end of America's border with Mexico, Americans and Mexicans live and work together. | Business, international | |
| One standard for all pupils? (national examinations) | Business, international | |
| One world? (economic globalism) | Business, international | |
| Only a minority: policy brutality. (New York City) | Business, international | |
| On probation: thalidomide. | Business, international | |
| On target: some central banks now use the inflation rate as the lodestar for monetary policy. (Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| On the blink: digital television. | Business, international | |
| On the block: Czech banking. | Business, international | |
| On the edge of the abyss again: Japanese shares. | Business, international | |
| On the leash: civil liberties in Britain have been seriously eroded by a stream of ill-considered laws.(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| On the march: Toyota. (Toyota Motor Corp.) | Business, international | |
| On the mend, at last. (economic reform in Thailand)(Leaders)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| On the trail of the mutant inflation monster. (asset-price inflation)(Finance and Economics) | Business, international | |
| Opening South Africa. (barriers to economic growth)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Open Japan's skies: a trade row with America over air services will be a good test of Japan's willingness to deregulate the economy.(Leaders)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Opportunity knocks. (deal with Worldcom to buy CompuServe will make America Online stronger) | Business, international | |
| Oprah in trouble. (Oprah Winfrey in libel lawsuit) | Business, international | |
| Orthodox yes-men: Russia. (Orthodox Church's role in post-communist Russia) | Business, international | |
| Oscar Auerbach.(scientist who discovered the link between smoking and cancer)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Otanising: France and Germany. (defense pact between the two nations causes controversy) | Business, international | |
| Our town: letter from Palermo. (cultural life in Palermo, Sicily) | Business, international | |
| Our turn now: Indians versus greens.(environmental impact of proposed water diversion project in New Mexico and Colorado) | Business, international | |
| Out of Africa. (Congress considers new aid policy)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Out of their league. (analysis of investment banking practices across the Atlantic) | Business, international | |
| Out of the shadow of Deng. (Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, the late Deng Xiaoping) | Business, international | |
| Out of the shadows: Cambodia. (Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot) | Business, international | |
| Overkill: youth crime. (in UK) | Business, international | |
| Painful Peregrination: investment banking in Myanmar. (Peregrine) | Business, international | |
| Pakistan's false dawn.(National Defense and Security Council to watch out for political corruption)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Pakistan - wounded at birth. | Business, international | |
| Palindrome repents: George Soros has made too much money to written off as a duffer. But his recent diatribe against capitalism took him out of his depth.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Pamela Harriman.(US ambassador)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Pandora's box: freedom of information. (British government may reduce secrecy) | Business, international | |
| Paradise dimmed: city planning. (Portland, OR) | Business, international | |
| Parcel bomb: employee ownership. (United Parcel Service and United Airlines) | Business, international | |
| Park life: city planning. (more open spaces and parks in urban areas) | Business, international | |
| Partitioned city: the West Bank. (new wave of violence in the divided city of Hebron due to provocation by Israeli instigator) | Business, international | |
| Partners in crime.(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Peace in Europe: it will continue only if Europeans and Americans stick together. | Business, international | |
| Peace in our time: Boeing v Airbus. (aerospace industry) | Business, international | |
| Perky: Spain. (good economic conditions) | Business, international | |
| Persons at arms: the disciplines of war.(adultery in the military) | Business, international | |
| Pete Wilson, new progressive. (California governor Pete Wilson) | Business, international | |
| Pete Wilson's medicine: welfare in California. (governor's welfare reform proposals)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Phoney peace. (insurgency in Colombia) | Business, international | |
| Pill pushers: advertising drugs. (advertising prescription medicines) | Business, international | |
| Pills and pens: Boots and W.H. Smith. (British retail chains Boots the Chemist and W.H. Smith) | Business, international | |
| Plagued by cures. (disease prevention in infancy) | Business, international | |
| Playing godmother to invention: many countries spend heavily to foster research and development. But inventing new technology is less important than using it effectively. (Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Play it again Samuelson: what is the role of a basic economics textbook? (Economic Focus)(Column)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Please panic early: it may not be the end of the world as we know it, but the year-2000 computer bug is already a very expensive nuisance.(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Plenty of gloom: environmental scares - forecasters of scarcity and doom are not only invariably wrong, they think that being wrong proves them right.(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Plenty to go round: Russian finance. | Business, international | |
| Poetic injustice: in some parts of the world, poets go in fear of their lives. | Business, international | |
| Poetic injustice. (the fate of poetry in modern society) | Business, international | |
| Poison across the Rio Grande. (drug trafficking from Mexico into US) | Business, international | |
| Poland turns again. (victory of Solidarity party in Poland election)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Poles of attraction: new post-communist businesses are formidable; survivors from communist times less so. (Business in Eastern Europe Survey) | Business, international | |
| Policing the police: Brazil. (police corruption)(International) | Business, international | |
| Political meltdown: Japan.(failure of the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp to report nuclear leaks) | Business, international | |
| Politicians for rent. (campaign finance)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Politics meets mathematics: France. (economic policies of new socialist government) | Business, international | |
| Poll axed: Indonesia. (minority party protests election irregularities) | Business, international | |
| Pontiff of the skies: Sir Michael Bishop has pioneered open skies in Europe. He and his kind will not get much further without open airports too.(Column) | Business, international | |
| Poor France: it still has another five years of Jacques Chirac's presidency to run - never mind the Socialist government.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Popular culture's heavenly glow: Spain's newly-fashionable Catholicism. | Business, international | |
| Pork bellies calling: commoditising telecoms. (telecommunications industry; Band-X) | Business, international | |
| Ports in a storm: shipping in Japan. | Business, international | |
| Postel disputes: the Internet.(suggest by Jon Postel to change Internet domain names creates controversy) | Business, international | |
| Preparing for China.(Li Ka-shing restructure his Hong Kong business empire) | Business, international | |
| Preparing to die: European Monetary Institute. (pending introduction of single currency in Europe) | Business, international | |
| Preparing to fly: European monetary union. (report on currency union's impact in the UK) | Business, international | |
| Preserving values: Arabian punishment.(capital punishment in Arab countries) | Business, international | |
| Price of power: China. (increase in military spending) | Business, international | |
| Privatisation, sort of: Indian banking. | Business, international | |
| Productivity: lost in cyberspace. (information technology) | Business, international | |
| Prognosis: poor: the National Health Service.(United Kingdom) | Business, international | |
| Progress at last? (Britain's Special Air Service's seizure of two war criminals boosts Bosnia's prospects for peace) | Business, international | |
| Pukkah hotels: the great old colonial watering holes of Asia are forsaking crumbling grandeur for sleek efficiency. Will only sentimentalists mourn? | Business, international | |
| Pulling the Middle East together again. (US-led negotiations with Israelis and Palestinians)(International) | Business, international | |
| Punch-drunk: NatWest. (outside shareholders are dissatisfied with management) | Business, international | |
| Quick march! Who says? (the European Union's stance towards unrest in Albania) | Business, international | |
| Quiet flows the Don - and almost all else. (civil-military relations)(Russia Survey) | Business, international | |
| Quietly does it: ballooning round the world. | Business, international | |
| Raise a fond last glass to Dionysus: life at university. (alcohol consumption by college fraternities a cause for concern) | Business, international | |
| Rambo Rambus.(Intel and Rambus develop new faster dynamic random-access memory computer chip) | Business, international | |
| Range-finder: Lockheed Martin. (defense company management) | Business, international | |
| Raspberry rebels. (the once unconventional ice-cream making company, Ben & Jerry's, faces compromise because of the demands of capitalism) | Business, international | |
| Rats, parking and politics: Hong Kong.(Asia) | Business, international | |
| Raytheon's rise.(Raytheon Co. to buy Hughes Electronics) | Business, international | |
| Reaching for the moon: Thailand. (political troubles of Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh) | Business, international | |
| Ready, aim, vote: Albania. (elections scheduled for June 29, 1997) | Business, international | |
| Ready or not: Europe isn't ready for it, but the euro is coming anyway. (United Kingdom and the European Economic Union)(Leaders)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Ready or not, here comes EMU.(European Monetary Union)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Ready or not, here comes EMU. (European Monetary Union)(Europe's Single Currency) | Business, international | |
| Ready, steady ... whoops. (competition in the telecommunications industry)(Telecommunications Survey) | Business, international | |
| Ready to face the world? (China)(China Survey) | Business, international | Dominic Ziegler |
| Reality hits Japan. (Japan's troubled financial system)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Rearranging the chessboard. (A Survey of Indonesia) | Business, international | |
| Reasons to be venal: can governments reduce corruption by paying more to public servants? | Business, international | |
| Reconciliation and Steve Biko.(exposing men who killed him through South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission) | Business, international | |
| Redfellas: organized crime.(Russian organized crime in South Florida) | Business, international | |
| Rediscovering Quebec: Canada. | Business, international | |
| Rediscovering the Americas. (free trade and more interaction among the US, Latin America and Canada)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Re-engineering in Thailand. (Thai Farmers Bank) | Business, international | |
| Referee Reno.(Attorney General Janet Reno under pressure over investigation of political fund-raising scandals; Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Reforming the city.(financial regulation in London, England)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Reforming the firm. (corporate governance)(Leaders)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Reforming the unreformable: six months after taking on the biggest job in British industry, how is George Simpson doing? (General Electric Co.)(Face Value) | Business, international | |
| Reform in the air: China. (possibility of free-market policies) | Business, international | |
| Reform, one day: Ecuador. (political reform) | Business, international | |
| Rehabilitated: insurance. (Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.) | Business, international | |
| Rejecting rejection: transplant surgery. | Business, international | |
| Remaking Kenya: the IMF's break with the country can only help. (International Monetary Fund)(Leaders)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Remind me one more time.... (controversy over recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse) | Business, international | |
| Remodeling Scandinavia: will economic recovery make the nordic countries' famous welfare states look good? Only after further reform. (Europe) | Business, international | |
| Renaissance art: Harlem. (Black art, Hayward Gallery, London, England) | Business, international | |
| Resisting resistance.(antibiotic-resistant bacteria) | Business, international | |
| Resolving Labour's local difficulties. (ambivalent attitude of the Labour Party in increasing the powers of local governments)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Re-starting arms control.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Return of the prophet: Oracle. (network computers) | Business, international | |
| Revolting already. (Scottish Tories) | Business, international | |
| Revolution in the air. (results-based pay vs report-based pay for consultants)(Management Consultancy Survey) | Business, international | |
| Reworking the UN: reform means more than cutting dollars and staff. (new Sec. General Kofi Annan has an agenda)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Ride along little tanker: the other Texas. (lucrative pilot boat industry on the Gulf of Mexico) | Business, international | |
| Riding for a fall? (stock market) | Business, international | |
| Riding high. (British Labour Party may not experience a mid-term slump)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Riling NATO. (France and relations with NATO). | Business, international | |
| Risks and chances: venture capital. (in Germany) | Business, international | |
| Robert Graham.(Jesuit Priest Robert Graham, known for his book 'Vatican Diplomacy')(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Robert Serber. (atomic physicist)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Roboshop: intelligent agents. (online shopping software) | Business, international | |
| Rolling the Lords: Scottish devolution. (plans for the formation of the Scottish parliament opens up discussions on changing the House of Lords) | Business, international | |
| Rolls-Royce flies high: aircraft engines. | Business, international | |
| Romania starts to rebuild. | Business, international | |
| Rosen cavalier: alternative engines for cars. | Business, international | |
| Rounding the bend? (Eurotunnel faces more challenges) | Business, international | |
| Roy Lichtenstein. (painter)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Rudolf returns: an exhibition on Imperial Prague.(art and odditities on exhibition at 'Rudolf II and Prague: the Imperial court as the residential city and cultural and spiritual center of Central Europe,' Prague, Czech Republic) | Business, international | |
| Rudy awakening: New York's mayoral race. (possible mayoral race between New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and David Dinkins) | Business, international | |
| Rudy Giuliani's middle way. (New York City mayor)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Rumbling down the runway: German airlines.(Industry Overview) | Business, international | |
| Rumpus in Hong Kong. (1997 meetings of World Bank and International Monetary Fund)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Rural descent: Vietnam. (discontent among farmers in Vietnam) | Business, international | |
| Russia refreshed: a cautious cheer for a reshuffled Kremlin.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Russia's capital: beacon or bogey? (Moscow's dominance) | Business, international | |
| Russia's in-the-red army. (push for military reform) | Business, international | |
| Russia's old imperial map is still shrivelling: the Commonwealth of Independent States has little left in common. | Business, international | |
| Russia's surly answer to NATO. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | Business, international | |
| Saddam defies the UN, again. (Iraq Pres Saddam Hussein) | Business, international | |
| Safety in numbers: German insurance. | Business, international | |
| Salomon succumbs at last: Sanford Weill of Travelers has built an empire buying companies on the cheap. (Salomon Inc. purchased by Travelers Group) | Business, international | |
| Save the little guy: the law on patents. | Business, international | |
| Save the peace. (Israeli/Palestinian peace accord)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Say "hostile takeover" in Japanese: mergers. | Business, international | |
| Sayonara? Japanese banks. (bank failures) | Business, international | |
| School for scandal.(Column) | Business, international | |
| Schools at the top of the hill. (charter schools)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| School's out: Egypt.(poor state of education in Egypt) | Business, international | |
| Scientific justice. (legal and scientific debate over silicone breast implants) | Business, international | |
| Scots writers spurn their neighbours. | Business, international | |
| Scottish and brave: the Edinburgh Festival. | Business, international | |
| Scraply islands: the Philippines. (Philippines-China dispute over the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal) | Business, international | |
| Screening for cancer: the case for routine screening of women in their 40s has been overstated, for political reasons as well as medical ones. (pro-woman is politically correct now)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Sea-food platter, Havana-style. (small business in Cuba) | Business, international | |
| Second thoughts: Australia. (fiscal restraint and budget issues) | Business, international | |
| Second thoughts on globalisation. (analysis of globalization impact) | Business, international | |
| Secrets of the Cabernet. (researchers trace origins of popular vineyard grape) | Business, international | |
| Seeing that it's all fair and above board. (election monitoring) | Business, international | |
| Select enemy. Delete. (new military technologies that are changing warfare) | Business, international | |
| Semi-resuscitated: urban affairs. (East St. Louis, IL) | Business, international | |
| Senator Pothole. (Senator Alfonse D'Amato; Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Sensored: medical diagnostics. (new device developed by the Co-operative Research Center for for Molecular Engineering and Technology) | Business, international | |
| Sent packing: Malaysia.(crackdown on illegal immigrant workforce) | Business, international | |
| Separate and lift: outsourcing. (Sara Lee restructuring) | Business, international | |
| Separate and unequal: bilingual education. | Business, international | |
| Service with a smile: how do you get your employees to care about their customers? (Management Focus) | Business, international | |
| Shadows, red caviar and gold leaf: letter from Odessa. (architecture and history of Odessa, Ukraine) | Business, international | |
| Shaky future. (Franjo Tudman and Croatian politics) | Business, international | |
| Shall we, yawn, go to a film?(American interest in foreign language films) | Business, international | |
| Shameful: peer review. (analysis of how women scientists experience discrimination) | Business, international | |
| Shanghai takes shape. (China; economic development and political attitudes)(Asia) | Business, international | |
| Shan't play: digital video discs. (recordable discs) | Business, international | |
| Shaping up. (French health resort) | Business, international | |
| Sharif-2: Pakistan. (reelection of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif) | Business, international | |
| Shop for little horrors. (attention to children's television increasing) | Business, international | |
| Shopping for a drugs policy. (illegal drugs)(Britain) | Business, international | |
| Shrink the world. (international telephone call rates)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Shrubbed out of existence: communities in Central Park. (New York, NY) | Business, international | |
| Sickly Yeltsin: better - just - a quick recovery than a quick exit. (Russian President Boris Yeltsin)(Leaders)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Silicon, silicon everywhere. (international high-technology companies)(Silicon Valley, CA) | Business, international | |
| Silicon Valley's new Sugar Daddies. (venture capitalism by large high-tech firms) | Business, international | |
| Silicon Waves. | Business, international | |
| Silicon waves: superconductors. | Business, international | |
| Singapore, Central America: Costa Rica.(Costa Rica's changing economy) | Business, international | |
| Single market, singular irony. (European single market)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Sinister origin: left-handedness. | Business, international | |
| Sinkhole no more: Egypt's economy. | Business, international | |
| Sinn Fein comes on board. (Irish nationalist party joins Northern Ireland peace talks) | Business, international | |
| Sir Joshua Hassan. (chief minister of the Rock of Gibraltar dies on July 1, 1997 at age 81)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Situations vacant: Asian property. | Business, international | |
| Skylarks. (BSkyB expected to take a downturn) | Business, international | |
| Slave to the rhythm: Living organisms could not function without clocks inside them. But those clocks are not always comfortable with the strains of modern life. | Business, international | |
| Sliding back to war? Sierra Leone. | Business, international | |
| Slow track to fast-track. (Clinton administration's push for fast-track authorization of trade deals) | Business, international | |
| Smoke in his eye: Virginia politics. (Virginia gubernatorial candidate Donald Beyer campaigning against tobacco industry)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Smoking out the truth: Hong Kong. (China invokes memories of the opium war with the UK to win public support) | Business, international | |
| Soccer, beer and sex: giving laddishness a good name. (English football, British masculinity become respectable) | Business, international | |
| So, does America want them or not? (immigrants) | Business, international | |
| Solid foundations. (economic strengths of Indonesia)(A Survey of Indonesia) | Business, international | |
| Some do eat cake. (economic success)(Russia Survey) | Business, international | |
| Something horrible out there: will Eastern Europe be the next region to suffer exchange-rate turmoil? | Business, international | |
| Something new in mind. (fetal brain cell transplants) | Business, international | |
| Somewhere special to stay. (evaluating European hotels) | Business, international | |
| Song and dance routine: ASEAN. (Association of South-East Asian Nations) | Business, international | |
| Sorry: desegregation 40 years on. (anniversary of desegregation in Arkansas) | Business, international | |
| South Africa's leaderless Nats. (National Party of South Africa) | Business, international | |
| South-East Asia's learning difficulties. (spending money on education) | Business, international | |
| Southern Africa's unmentionable curse. (HIV infection and social aspects in Africa) | Business, international | |
| Southern promise. (A Survey of Italy) | Business, international | |
| South Korea's lame duck: scandal has destroyed the authority of President Kim Young Sam. Big political and economic changes could be in store. | Business, international | |
| South Korea's two battlefronts.(domestic labor policy and relations with North Korea) | Business, international | |
| Soviet hangover: letter from Samarkand. (restoration of historic buildings in the Uzbekistan city) | Business, international | |
| So where do the poorest go? Public housing. (federal reform of public housing) | Business, international | |
| Space odyssey. | Business, international | |
| Speak, memory: Russia. (languages of Russia's ethnic republics)(Europe) | Business, international | |
| Spend, spend, spend. (growth in government spending)(A Survey of the World Economy) | Business, international | |
| Spinning it out at Thermo Electron. (energy-equipment maker serves as incubator for spin-off businesses)(Company Profile) | Business, international | |
| Sportsman of the year? Robert Louis-Dreyfus helped to tidy up after the Saatchi brothers overreached themselves. Is he now repeating their mistake? | Business, international | |
| Spot the governor: clue: not John Major. (differences in U.K. party manifestos) | Business, international | |
| Sprouting again: the defence of nature 2. (growth of the environmental movement)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Staging post: Honduras. (drug traffic route) | Business, international | |
| Stalemate: Peru.(hostage taking of Peruvian officials by Tupac Amaru guerrillas) | Business, international | |
| Standing firm on Europe. (Prime Minister John Major likely to lose re-election due to Conservative Party's divisions over single European currency)(Leaders)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Stand-off: trade with China. | Business, international | |
| Star wars. (state of the film industry due to new technology)(Editorial)(Industry Overview) | Business, international | |
| Steady as she sinks. (the UK Conservative Party) | Business, international | |
| Steak in the heart: New Orleans. (debate over the Straya restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana) | Business, international | |
| Step back from Har Homa. (planned Israeli settlement)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Still edgy: Turkish shares. | Business, international | |
| Still growing its own by decree: China. (food production) | Business, international | |
| Still in command: big government will come to terms with the global economy. (A Survey of the World Economy) | Business, international | |
| Still on board: France and the euro. (single European currency)(Europe) | Business, international | |
| Still undecided? (voters and general elections in Britain)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Stirring up the party faithful. (William Hague, new leader of Britain's Conservative Party) | Business, international | |
| Stitched up: the City of London.(Labor Party lessens regulatory proposals for the British financial industry) | Business, international | |
| Stocks, drugs and Roche's role: pharmaceutical takeover. (Hoffmann-LaRoche parent to buy Corange) | Business, international | |
| Stock up for a rainy day.(Economic Focus) | Business, international | |
| Stopping the Yangzi's flow. (Chinese dam project) | Business, international | |
| Stored wealth: Zaire. (mines and mineral resources)(International) | Business, international | |
| Storming Mount Fuji: high-handed as Peru's president may be, the way to get rid of him is through the ballot box. (Alberto Fujimori)(Leaders)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Storm warning in Korea. (North Korean government may be close to collapse)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Stranded on the farm? (agricultural economies)(Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Stretching the national fabric: fashion and tradition.(popularity of kente cloth fabric) | Business, international | |
| Strictly ballroom. (Philippine Pres Fidel Ramos's rumored plans for reelection) | Business, international | |
| Strong sterling's silver linings. (implications of the strong pound on British economy) | Business, international | |
| Struggling for the prince's ear. (Labor Government in the United Kingdom)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Struggling to avoid oblivion: soccer at England's poorer clubs. | Business, international | |
| Subway to the sky: how a reserved Canadian turned a family snow-mobile firm into the nearest challenger to Boeing and Airbus. (Bombardier)(Face Value)(Company Profile) | Business, international | |
| Such calm, such politeness. (quiet manner in which China is reclaiming Hong Kong) | Business, international | |
| Sue Sumii.(Japanese human rights activist dies on June 16, 1997, at age 95)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Sue Sumii.(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Suharto's end-game. (A Survey of Indonesia) | Business, international | Simon Long |
| Suharto's regional swing: ASEAN. (Association of South-East Asian Nations; Indonesian President Suharto) | Business, international | |
| Sun, sea, sand and...? (crime in Pattaya)(Asia: Thailand) | Business, international | |
| Sun Yaoting.(Chinese imperial eunuch)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Superman versus the hong. (Hong Kong investor Li Ka-shing challenges real estate owner Hongkong Land) | Business, international | |
| Surf music: selling books via the Internet is already big business. Selling records is going to be a lot harder. | Business, international | |
| Surprisingly brave: Scotland. (referendum approves Scottish parliament) | Business, international | |
| Surveying another globe: Mars. | Business, international | |
| Survival skills: retailing in South America. | Business, international | |
| Survival tactics: European banks. | Business, international | |
| Sustainable arguments. (conservationist principles and sustainable use) | Business, international | |
| Sweating for that Euro.(European Monetary Union) | Business, international | |
| Switched off: Venezuela. (effect of slow privatization on state-owned utilities) | Business, international | |
| Take out life insurance before you enter. (violent crime in Latin America) | Business, international | |
| Take your pick: Italy. (election results)(Europe) | Business, international | |
| Taking flight: America's airlines. | Business, international | |
| Taking liberties: China is at it in Hong Kong, and too many foreigners are prepared to say nothing.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Taking on the mullahs: if America and Europe could agree on a common approach, Iran might be helped to become a gentler place.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Taking the PEP out of saving. (personal equity plans and tax-exempt special savings accounts eliminated, individual savings accounts introduced, as UK government uses tax breaks to encourage citizens to save) | Business, international | |
| Talking with guns. (Irish Republican Army involved in violence amid calls for ceasefire and talks) | Business, international | |
| Taming Bill Gates: America's trustbusters may have moved too soon. (antitrust case against Microsoft Corp.) | Business, international | |
| Taxes for a cleaner planet: enthusiasts for green taxes promise a double blessing: a better environment and a healthier economy. Is this too good to be true? (Economic Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Tax-exempt and loving it: the real scandal involving Newt Gingrich is the over-generous way in which the American government treats "charities."(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Taxing matters: European Union. | Business, international | |
| Tax reform runs late; after years of promises, Japan is about to overhaul its system of corporate taxation. But the result will hardly be worth the wait. (Finance and Economics) | Business, international | |
| Taylor-made. (Paula Jones harassment case) | Business, international | |
| Taylor-made: the Paula Jones affair. (legal writer Stuart Taylor) | Business, international | |
| Teddy Roosevelt rides again. (influence of former president on Pres Bill Clinton)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Ted Turner's management consultant. (Steve Heyer)(Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Television's new boss. (more availability of channels gives television viewers more power)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Telling it like it, up to a point, was: secrets revealed. (Central Intelligence Agency secretiveness) | Business, international | |
| Testing testing. (more efficient clinical trials) | Business, international | |
| Thaied up in knots. (analysis of the Thai economic situation) | Business, international | |
| Thailand gets the bill. (agreement with the International Monetary Fund) | Business, international | |
| Thank you, general, you're dismissed. (Colombian President Ernesto Sampler dismisses armed-forces chief General Harold Bedoya) | Business, international | |
| Thatcherites in Brussels (really). (free markets in the European Union) | Business, international | |
| That infernal washing machine; a growing number of governments are worried about money laundering; so they should be. (Money Laundering) | Business, international | |
| Thawing out the Indian subcontinent. (India and Pakistan negotiate) | Business, international | |
| The ABC of a currency board: currency boards can help countries parry attacks on thei currencies. But is Hong Kong running its board the right way? | Business, international | |
| The aboriginal patterns that haunt Australia.(aboriginal land rights) | Business, international | |
| The absolute power of the Leader.(Iran Survey) | Business, international | |
| The advice business.(Management Consultancy Survey) | Business, international | |
| The Alamo, again. (Republic of Texas militia in standoff with police in Fort David, Texas)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| The Albanian mess. (civil strife)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The all-seeing eye: Big Brother. (automated surveillance systems) | Business, international | |
| The ambiguities of amnesty: South Africa.(government amnesty for political crimes) | Business, international | |
| The American way of leisure.(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The anti-management guru: Scott Adams has made a business of bashing business. Why does the hand he bites love to feed him?(Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The artifice of diversity. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Byzantium art) | Business, international | |
| The backlash begins: prove your worth, say the clients.(Management Consultancy Survey) | Business, international | |
| The baht spills over: South-East Asia. (Thailand's troubled economy may affect other South-East Asian nations) | Business, international | |
| The bank with tentacles: central banking. (influence of the Bank of Italy on Italian economics) | Business, international | |
| The barbarians reach Europe: America's best-known buyout firm is coming to Europe. About time, too, for European companies.(Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts) | Business, international | |
| The battle for Afghanistan. (Talisban Islamic movement retreats)(Asia) | Business, international | |
| The battle of Piscataway. (Supreme Court hears New Jersey affirmative action case) | Business, international | |
| The battle of Russia's capitalisms. (crony vs. free-market capitalism)(Leaders)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The beauty of being Belgium is skin-deep; though competition has held back the growth of electronic money elsewhere, collusion may not be a better answer.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The Belfast express: Britain's prime minister looks admirably determined to put a choice before the people of Northern Ireland, with or without the co-operation of local politicians. (Tony Blair) | Business, international | |
| The benign ghost of Lu Zoufu. (riverboat entrepreneur's son relaunches the shipping firm Minsheng)(Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The best has yet to sing. (opera) | Business, international | |
| The best world club we have: the United Nations. (vulnerability of UN in the face of growing debts and conflict between member nations) | Business, international | |
| The big five? Accounting. (proposed merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand) | Business, international | |
| The big idea: that's what clients want.(Management Consultancy Survey) | Business, international | |
| The big one: water in the West (1). (campaign to drain Lake Powell) | Business, international | |
| The big squeeze: European Commission.(part two) | Business, international | |
| The big squeeze: Kenya. (financial aid and corruption) | Business, international | |
| The blind, the deaf and the dumb. (governments of Southeast Asia) | Business, international | |
| The bloodhounds of history: is encouraging human rights a legitimate goal of foreign policy?(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| The blur ahead: France. (upcoming general elections) | Business, international | |
| The canal and the president. (Panama Canal) | Business, international | |
| The cardinals lose their grip: Italian capitalism. | Business, international | |
| The case for mild repression. (international economic relations) | Business, international | |
| The case for Ulster Unionism.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The case of the bouncing bunny. (Christie Hefner's turnaround of Playboy Enterprises; Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The century the earth stood still. (comparing 1897 and 1997) | Business, international | |
| The chairman's brief. (emerging markets management)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The chance for France. (it would be best for France if Jacques Chirac wins the general election beginning May 25, 1997)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The changing dream.(Survey - Silicon Valley) | Business, international | |
| The charm of old money. (profiting from care for the elderly) | Business, international | |
| The China card: Gephardt 2000. (Democratic presidential hopeful Dick Gephardt's stance on China policy) | Business, international | |
| The China syndrome. (situation of foreign investments in China) | Business, international | |
| The choice for Scotland and Wales. (devolution proposals) | Business, international | |
| The clouds clear over Europe: growth and jobs. | Business, international | |
| The combustible Caspian.(border countries fight over rights to Caspian Sea oil fields) | Business, international | |
| The coming order: Zaire.(guerrilla war widens) | Business, international | |
| The core and the cloud. (A Survey of Universities) | Business, international | |
| The cosmic corkscrew. (electromagnetic radiation movement in the universe) | Business, international | |
| The cost of forgetting. (quantum physics' answer to "Maxwell's demon") | Business, international | |
| The cost of shooting your own navel: non-Hollywood American cinema. | Business, international | |
| The coup in Ecuador.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The cunning of the hedgehog: for Eli Broad, head of SunAmerica, it was enough to have one big idea. (Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The curious history of herbaceous borders. (garden history) | Business, international | |
| The dark side of cosmology. (research on dark matter) | Business, international | |
| The dash for the off switch: America's television networks. | Business, international | |
| The death of gradualism. (economic reforms in China)(Survey China) | Business, international | |
| The Deng death show.(the death of Deng Xiaoping) | Business, international | |
| The diamond city: Zaire. (Mbuji-Mayi) | Business, international | |
| The diamonds in the rubble: science in Russia. | Business, international | |
| The difference a mayor makes: reforming the schools. (Mayor Richard Daley; school reform in Chicago, Illinois)(United States) | Business, international | |
| The difference twelve months makes: welfare reform. (welfare-to-work programs) | Business, international | |
| The disappearing taxpayer(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The disorient express: for some, France is still on the other side of the earth. (mixed feelings toward the Chunnel)(Letter from the Channel Tunnel) | Business, international | |
| The disunited state of Bosnia. | Business, international | |
| The doubts grow: care in the community. (shifting developmentally disabled from regional centers to community care in California)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| The earth moves: the Cambrian explosion. (new research into the Cambrian period of animal evolution) | Business, international | |
| The Ebonics virus. (Black English; education policy)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| The emperor's new health: Russia. (Boris Yeltsin's failing health) | Business, international | |
| The end is nigh; how did the triumphant winner of the 1992 election become the disregarded underdog of 1997.(UK elections) | Business, international | |
| The endless winter of Russian reform. (problems in Vorkuta, Russia)(Russia Survey) | Business, international | John Grimond |
| The end of federalism. (European integration)(European Union Survey) | Business, international | |
| The end of the miracle? (economic problems, violent crime, and racial tensions in South Africa)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| The end of the miracle. (South Korea's economic troubles) | Business, international | |
| The end of the tunnel. (proposed privatization of London, England's underground railway)(Economic Focus) | Business, international | |
| The enigma of acquiescence. (voter willingness to pay ever higher taxes)(A Survey of the World Economy) | Business, international | |
| The ever-surprising Lionel Jospin. (French prime minister) | Business, international | |
| The fall of Thailand? Thailand's economy may be in a mess, but it is too soon to write off its - or East Asia's - growth prospects.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The family firm. (business empire of the Suharto family)(A Survey of Indonesia) | Business, international | |
| The farmbelt breaks free. (phase-out of subsidies) | Business, international | |
| The fat man sings: Nicaragua.(President Arnoldo Aleman) | Business, international | |
| The Faustian bargain: in her death, even more than her life, Princess Diana has become a global celebrity. But what forces create such fame? (Diana, Princess of Wales)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| The fear in Little Managua. (Nicaraguans who are illegal aliens fear deportation from Florida) | Business, international | |
| The feuding right.(French conservative party, Rally for the Republic, must regroup) | Business, international | |
| The fight over China's future: why are the pundits so bad at predicting where China is going? | Business, international | |
| The fight to be fair: pre-trial proceedings. (trial of accused bomber Timothy McVeigh)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| The final hurry: on death and dying. (federal regulation of hospice services)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| The fine art of the hold-up: bank robberies. | Business, international | |
| The flaws in the diamonds: celebrating the end of segregated baseball. | Business, international | |
| The flock instinct. (forecasts on 1997 UK elections)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The four to fear. (the largest dangers for banks in emerging markets)(Survey of Banking in Emerging Markets) | Business, international | |
| The French way. (management of truckers strike)(Leaders)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| The future of liberty: can democracy tame the state? (A Survey of the World Economy) | Business, international | |
| The future of warfare. (new weapon technology to benefit US)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| The gambler who rebuilt London: Paul Reichmann, once the world's foremost landlord, has come back to Canary Wharf. How far will he go this time? (Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The gate to the home: even Internet surfers have to loop the local loop. (Telecommunications Survey) | Business, international | |
| The German Pfandbrief. | Business, international | |
| The giants stumble: South Korean manufacturing. | Business, international | |
| The great escape. (currency boards) (Economics Focus) | Business, international | |
| The greatest music of all? (string quartets) | Business, international | |
| The great Fenice mystery. (slow progress on rebuilding opera house in Venice, Italy) | Business, international | |
| The great pension debate. (Britain) | Business, international | |
| The great under-achievers. (large companies of Italy)(A Survey of Italy) | Business, international | |
| The green gene giant. (Monsanto Co. to spin off chemicals and focus on agricultural biotechnology)(Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The Guevara effect. (Che Guevara's influence on Latin Americans) | Business, international | |
| The healer's due: gold and the gospel. (lucrative business of electronic ministries) | Business, international | |
| The heartland's German model: job training. (German companies in Wisconsin introduce apprenticeship program)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| The heirs of the Klondike. (successful businesses in Seattle, Washington, may be traced to 1897 Klondike Gold rush)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| The hidden cost of taxes. (A Survey of the World Economy) | Business, international | |
| The high road: European interest rates. | Business, international | |
| The holistic gardener. | Business, international | |
| The hope for Zaire: a fresh start, not a ceasefire.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The humbling of Chubais. (Russian reformer Anatoly Chubais involved in book advance scandal)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| The immaterial world: manufacturing technology. (computer-aided design) | Business, international | |
| The importance of foreign-devil money.(China Survey) | Business, international | |
| The inaccessible bard. (Shakespeare film adaptions) | Business, international | |
| The increasing loneliness of being Turkey. (Turkey finds it hard to balance Islam and democracy) | Business, international | |
| The island view: immigration controls. (British immigration policy) | Business, international | |
| The joys of living in sync.(worldwide economic growth) | Business, international | |
| The justice and the politicians: Chile. (criminal justice system reform) | Business, international | |
| The Korean resurgence: five years from the riots. (1992 riots in Los Angeles, California) | Business, international | |
| The kretek man: Western tobacco makers consider emerging markets as theirs for the taking. One Indonesian is planning a counter-attack. (tobacco businessman Putera Sampoerna; Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The land of good examples. (Minnesota) | Business, international | |
| The language of sport: Cape Town's Olympic bid. (South Africa) | Business, international | |
| The last campaign of a chaebol warrior. (industrialist Kim Woo Choong)(Face Value) | Business, international | |
| The last days of Mobutu: one of the world's longest-running despotisms is on the verge of collapse. (Zaire) | Business, international | |
| The last emperor. (Deng Xiaoping)(Deng's China)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| The last explorer's last journey: Africa's most rugged white man is wait-listed for an old-people's home. (Sir Wilfred Thesiger)(Interview) | Business, international | |
| The law of the market. (shareholder rights and capital market size)(Economic Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The left rises: El Salvador. | Business, international | |
| The left rises from the almost-dead. (political left in the United States) | Business, international | |
| The lesson of Credit Lyonnais. (biggest French financial disaster) | Business, international | |
| The levitating Lib Dems. (Liberal Democrats)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The lobster and the whale: fishing. (protectors of the right whale propose lobster fishing limitations off coast of Maine) | Business, international | |
| The long-distance Hoosier. (Republican Senator Richard Lugar)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The long march to capitalism. (economic reform in China)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| The lure of the boob tube. (UK Prime Minister John Major contemplates the advantages and disadvantages of participating in political debates)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The makings of a Molotov cocktail. (Russian economy)(Russia Survey) | Business, international | |
| The man on the bench: Germany. (Social Democratic Gerhard Schroder) | Business, international | |
| The man who rewrote Australia: Manning Clark and the Order of Lenin. (historian) | Business, international | |
| The Margaret Thatcher of training. (Laurie Bell of Syndicate Training)(Face Value) | Business, international | |
| The market goes to market: financial exchanges. | Business, international | |
| The mass that roared: a state's foreign policy. (Massachusetts' trade policy towards Myanmar) | Business, international | |
| The master of Russia returns. (Boris Yeltsin) | Business, international | |
| The men for the job. (political leadership)(Russia Survey) | Business, international | |
| Theme-park tourism: Southern Africa. | Business, international | |
| The millennium-bug muddle. (computer program conversion to the 21st century)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The mistaken temptation of tax cuts.(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| The morning after: time for preventive action. (preventing bank failures)(Survey of Banking in Emerging Markets) | Business, international | |
| The mosque and the palace: Indonesia Muslims are seeking a political voice. (A Survey of Indonesia) | Business, international | |
| The mosquito at your door. (spread of malaria)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The mourning after: is a power struggle about to break out in China?(Chinese ruler Deng Xiaoping dies)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| The muddled maths of welfare-to-work. (welfare reform) | Business, international | |
| The mullahs' balance-sheet.(Iran Survey) | Business, international | |
| The music of the metropolis. (British urban revival) | Business, international | |
| The mutineer and the aunts: Miky Lee represents the face of modern South Korea. But she is not the first female Lee with ideas of her own. (businesswomen Lee In Hee and Lee Myung Hee)(Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The ne plus ultra of medicine: doctors are using the properties of ultrasound in some intriguing new ways. | Business, international | |
| The new convert. (United States to join in talks for eliminating land mines)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The new Daley machine. (Commerce Secretary William Daley)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The new merchant prince. (Tung Chee-hwa and Hong Kong politics) | Business, international | |
| The new Randlord: Cyril Ramaphosa wants to be seen as a new sort of South African businessman.(Face Value) | Business, international | |
| The next identity crisis: Belgium. | Business, international | |
| The next Tory leader.(Conservative Party, United Kingdom; Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The not-so-dark continent: why America is taking a second look at Africa.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The once and future boom. (Japanese economy) | Business, international | Eisuke Sakakibara |
| The once and future mall: Internet shopping. | Business, international | |
| The other BSE scandal. (British government's mishandling of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy crisis in the beef industry) | Business, international | |
| The other Marshall Plan. (the need for a present-day Marshall Plan)(George Marshall, US secretary of state in 1947)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The painful business of losing weight. | Business, international | |
| The partying's over: Puritans are alive and well and live in Washington. (politicians and social events) | Business, international | |
| The passing of a hero. (case settlement limiting tobacco advertising constitutes denial of responsibility)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The Paula Jones ratchet. (sexual harassment charges against Pres Clinton)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The people's monarchy. (United Kingdom)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The people's prince. (Prime Minister Tony Blair; Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The people's princess: a modern mourning for a modern star. (Diana, Princess of Wales)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| The perfect product? Only if you get it right.(Management Consultancy Survey) | Business, international | |
| The perils of maturity: promoting brands. (Japan) | Business, international | |
| The politics of justice: Ecuador. (selection of Supreme Court justices) | Business, international | |
| The powerful pound: sterling strength should not distract the Bank of England from its real task. (to provide price stability) | Business, international | |
| The power of sleaze.(political campaigns)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The president struggles on: Colombia.(Ernesto Samper) | Business, international | |
| The price of lobster thermidor. (health of divers) | Business, international | |
| The princes are revolting: Germany. (relations between Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Edmund Stoiber, premier of Bavaria) | Business, international | |
| The puppet-master of toytown. (Hong Kong-born Charles Woo and his Megatoys toy business in Los Angeles)(Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The puzzling failure of economics.(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The quadrillionth quadrille: chemical reactions happen in mind-bogglingly short spans of time. But not so short that science cannot capture them. | Business, international | |
| The quartering of Canada. (fractious federal parliament of Canada) | Business, international | |
| The quest for size.(Management Consultancy Survey) | Business, international | |
| The radical clan: Russia. (economic reformers led by Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais) | Business, international | |
| The rebirth of the blues: the music of poor blacks enriches America's deep south.(Letter from the Mississippi Delta) | Business, international | |
| The Republican collapse. (the Republican revolution in Congress)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The retreat of Egypt's Islamists. | Business, international | |
| The return of the Manhattan Midas: having soared in the 1980s and crashed in the early 1990s, Donald Trump says he is back at the top. Is he?(Column) | Business, international | |
| The return of the saver. (deregulation of the financial services industry)(Japanese Finance Survey) | Business, international | |
| The right rejected in France. (elections) | Business, international | |
| The rights of man: contraception. | Business, international | |
| The right to choose to die.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The rooks have come. (improving prospects for economic reform in Russia)(Russia Survey) | Business, international | |
| The rulers, the ruled and the African reality. (democracy and economic reform in Africa) | Business, international | |
| The rumbling Caribbean. (volcanic actions in the Caribbean islands) | Business, international | |
| The rumbling Caribbean. (volcanic eruption on Montserrat) | Business, international | |
| The Rupert who hasn't made money from television. (tobacco mogul Johann Rupert)(Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The sage of Old Snowmass. (Rocky Mountain Institute co-founder Amory Lovins; Old Snowmass, Colorado)(Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The sea is still master. (instability of today's racing boats) | Business, international | |
| The search goes on: the Holocaust and history.(Jewish property) | Business, international | |
| The secret of the vaults: cell biology. (function of vaults in cell structure) | Business, international | |
| The shifting heart of a nation: Germany. (capital moved from Bonn to Berlin) | Business, international | |
| The short arm of the law: pity the telecoms regulator. (Telecommunications Survey) | Business, international | |
| The silver scream: Japan's entertainment business. | Business, international | |
| The sleepwalker awakes. (Quebec separatism is still a major issue in Canada) | Business, international | |
| The sorry state of saving. (personal savings rate in the US continues to decline) | Business, international | |
| The sound of too much music. (proliferation of classical music competitions) | Business, international | |
| The South African worry: jobless growth is joyless growth.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The space cadets grow up. (disappointments of space travel) | Business, international | |
| The Steve Forbes drum-beat. (increased popularity of a flat tax)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The storm before the storm: financial markets have been reeling from Alan Greenspan's long-awaited interest-rate hike. | Business, international | |
| The struggle to create creativity: Japan. (education reform) | Business, international | |
| The sum of its parts? (Los Angeles, California) | Business, international | |
| The tap runs dry: the forces of globalisation and new technology threaten to weaken the power of governments to tax their citizens. Can governments plug the leak?(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| The taxman goes to war: Russian taxes. | Business, international | |
| The Teamsters and UPS. (United Parcel Service strike)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The threat to Blair's throne: Labour's plans reflect its manifesto promises. Too much so? (UK Prime Minister Tony Blair) | Business, international | |
| The tigers' fearful symmetry. (face of Assn. of Southeast Asian Nations changes with addition of Vietnam and potential member Cambodia) | Business, international | |
| The tigers lose their grip. (Association of South-East Asian Nations must reconsider its non-interference policy as several Asian nations face severe economic problems)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The timid colossus. (U.S. defense policy) | Business, international | |
| The tower of science. (A Survey of Universities) | Business, international | |
| The tragedy of Diana. (death of Diana, Princess of Wales on August 31, 1997)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| The trouble with classical pitch. (marketing classical music performers; composer Simon Bainbridge wins prize) | Business, international | |
| The trouble with islands.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The trouble with South Korea: in politics, if not in economics, ordinary South Koreans appear much more sophisticated than their rulers. | Business, international | |
| The unchosen people. (debate by Israeli historians on Israel's role in the eviction of the Palestinians from their land) | Business, international | |
| The United States looks south. (relations with Mexico)(International) | Business, international | |
| The valley of money's delight.(Silicon Valley, CA) | Business, international | John Micklethwait |
| The Versace controversy. (America's reaction to fashion designer Gianni Versace's death)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The visible hand. (big government and the economy)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The vision thing. (Prime Minister Tony Blair's plans to modernize Britain)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| The volley from the valley: Afghanistan. (Taliban rebels) | Business, international | |
| The volunteers step forward: Japan. (voluntarism) | Business, international | |
| The Waltons: dinosaurs. (skeletal remains) | Business, international | |
| The west is best again. (California's economy) | Business, international | |
| The West Lothian answer: devolution. (seeking to balance Scottish power in Parliament) | Business, international | |
| The whine of success. (effect of a weaker yen against a strong dollar) | Business, international | |
| The whore of Babylon and the horseman of plague. (control of biological weapons) | Business, international | |
| The wild west of the east: Hong Kong stands to prosper as China's centre for international finance. But the ride will be rough. | Business, international | |
| The wind in the Balkans. (politics in Bulgaria and Serbia) | Business, international | |
| The worker and the volunteer. (US voluntarism)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| The world's most thankless job. (Anthony Lake withdraws nomination to head Central Intelligence Agency)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| The world to play for. (tobacco industry settlement of medical claims) | Business, international | |
| The would-be king of credit ratings: financiers. (Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere, controlling shareholder of credit rating company Fimalac) | Business, international | |
| The wounded bear. (international affairs)(Russia Survey) | Business, international | |
| The year of the triffids: genetic engineering. | Business, international | |
| Think big, Mr. President.(Bill Clinton)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Thinking big: Malaysian finance. | Business, international | |
| Thoroughly modern mercantilists. (exports as a part of foreign policy)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Thoroughly modern Salzburg. (under director Gerald Mortier, Salzburg Festival now includes modern operas) | Business, international | |
| Those magical mushrooms. (popularity of wild mushrooms) | Business, international | |
| Those mutinous French: France's ship of state may have to alter course if the left emerges victorious from the second round of the general election on June 1st. (1997 elections) | Business, international | |
| Those secular Spaniards. (Spanish politics and religion) | Business, international | |
| Those two capitalisms, again. (investors and investment in Europe) | Business, international | |
| Three into three: ITT's latest breakup. (ITT Corp. breaks into ITT Destinations, ITT Educational Services, and new ITT Corp.) | Business, international | |
| Three lame ducks: Scandinavia. (Social Democrats) | Business, international | |
| Through a glass sharply: Germany's Press.(Der Spiegel's 50th anniversary) | Business, international | |
| Through China's eyes. (defense concerns)(China Survey) | Business, international | |
| Thugs brought to book: the law. (alleged war criminals charged under Alien Tort Claims Act)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Thwack the law: France.(judicial system reform in France) | Business, international | |
| Tick, tock: time is working against state pensions. (social policy)(Survey: Fund Management) | Business, international | |
| Tijuana brass.(crime in Tijuana, Mexico) | Business, international | |
| Time for retreat? (anti-drug policies in the US and Latin America) | Business, international | |
| Time to break free: South Africa. (restrictions against taking South African money out of the country) | Business, international | |
| Time to go, dear leader: Italy. (Silvio Berlusconi) | Business, international | |
| Time to rock the boat. (progress in relations between Mexico and the United States, with recommendations for further improvement)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Time to roll out a new model. (development policy of the World Bank) | Business, international | |
| Tobacco outclassed. (future of the tobacco industry) | Business, international | |
| Tobacco's Brutus: the treachery of Bennett LeBow should encourage big tobacco to drop its big lie that smoking is safe.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| To be mobuted? (Daniel arap Moi to follow in Mobutu's footsteps) | Business, international | |
| To boldly dump: in space, nobody ever tidies up. | Business, international | |
| Toiling friends: Argentina. (results of general strike) | Business, international | |
| Tommy's town: running cities. (profile of Thomas Menino, mayor of Boston, Massachusetts) | Business, international | |
| Tomorrow calling. (global competition in telecommunications)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Tomorrow's pensioners.(UK Conservative Party's pension proposal) | Business, international | |
| Tony Blair's big idea. (British social policy) | Business, international | |
| Tony Blair's business affair. (Labour Party courts businesses)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Tony Blair's web.(staff of new Prime Minister of United Kingdom)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Tony keeps it tight. (United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair's public spending policy)(Britain) | Business, international | |
| Tony Lake, marked man. (Central Intelligence Agency director nominee Anthony Lake)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Tony, the fabulous prince. (Tony Blair)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Too clever by half; even drug firms with first-class research need the business basics. (pharmaceutical companies) | Business, international | |
| Too fat to dance: AT&T's proposed link-up with a pair of Baby Bells is around five years too early.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Too late for a gentle landing: South-East Asia's currencies are still weak and some of its stockmarkets have crashed. Now the financial crisis is threatening jobs and growth. | Business, international | |
| Too little Hagueography. (William Hague, beleaguered leader of Britain's Conservative Party)(Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Too much hot air. (global warming and greenhouse gas emission controls)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| To screen, or not to screen? (prostate cancer) | Business, international | |
| Tourist blight: Czech Republic. | Business, international | |
| Towards reform: United Nations. | Business, international | |
| Trade, and America's family feud: a confrontation between the United States and the World Trade Organisation over the Helms-Burton act is in nobody's interests.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Trade winds. (international trade; part 4) | Business, international | |
| Trent not, Republican supremo. (US Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Triple whammy? Novell. | Business, international | |
| Trojan DNA: new research has shed light on a possible cause of Alzheimer's disease. It's frequently to do with mitochondria. | Business, international | |
| Trouble ahead: labour relations. (new British Union laws) | Business, international | |
| Trouble at the check-out. (Sainsbury supermarket chain)(Face Value) | Business, international | |
| Troubled tribunal: the UN and Rwanda. | Business, international | |
| Trouble in the pipeline. (oil pipeline being built in Myanmar) | Business, international | |
| Trouble with the servants. (domestic workers in South Africa) | Business, international | |
| Truly selfish genes. (selfish genetic elements) | Business, international | |
| Try Pol Pot. (trial of Khmer Rouge leader)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Tung's Tiananmen headache: Hong Kong and China. (Hong Kong's new leader Tung Chee-hwa deals with Tiananmen Square massacre remembrance ceremonies) | Business, international | |
| Turkey's troubles. (North Atlantic Treaty Association and Turkey)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Turnaround: South Africa's economy. | Business, international | |
| Turning off the presses. (relationship between French and Italian newspapers and industrialists) | Business, international | |
| Turn of the tide? Immigration. (anti-immigrant sentiment in California) | Business, international | |
| Tusks and horns and conservationists.(attempts at ending ban on African elephant and rhinoceros tusk trade) | Business, international | |
| Twinkle, twinkle, once-great star: telecom mergers. | Business, international | |
| Twinned crowns: Germany's British accent.(Vicky and the Kaiser, German History Museum, Berlin, Germany) | Business, international | |
| Two tales of trade: broadly, economists agree that trade has had little effect on the wages of unskilled workers in rich countries. They disagree about why. | Business, international | |
| Two wobbly titans. (British Telecom merger fails and AT&T executive leaves) | Business, international | |
| Udder madness: British insolvency reform. | Business, international | |
| Ukraine and Russia seal a deal. (treaty of friendship signed on May 31, 1997) | Business, international | |
| Ulster's omens: violence threatens to fill the province's political vacuum.(Northern Ireland)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Ultrasexy: bird vision. | Business, international | |
| Unanswered questions: the government's latest ruminations on reforming private pensions show only one thing: how far it is from making up its mind. (UK) | Business, international | |
| Unbuckling the Kuiper belt: beyond the orbit of Pluto lies one of the most mysterious regions of space. But it is starting to yield its secrets. | Business, international | |
| Unbundled: South Africa's insurers. (life insurance industry) | Business, international | |
| Uncle Sam wags his finger.(US wants cooperation from Jamaica and Barbados on drug traffic control) | Business, international | |
| Undercover: Kroll Associates.(acquisition of Kroll Associates Inc.) | Business, international | |
| Understanding? (escalating violence in the regions of Lebanon, Syria and Israel) | Business, international | |
| Understanding science: as science grows, must ignorance of it?(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Under the knife: Japanese medical suppliers. (medical cost cutting) | Business, international | |
| Unequal abroad, punchier at home.(Russia) | Business, international | |
| Unfinished business: Poland prepares for Europe. (European Union membership) | Business, international | |
| Unhappy returns: Bangladesh. (political controversies) | Business, international | |
| Unhappy returns: Pakistan.(the army's role in politics there) | Business, international | |
| Unity for Israel?(coalition government joining Likud and Labor Parties considered)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Unpegged. (some Southeast Asian currencies, no longer linked to the USdollar, lose value) | Business, international | |
| Unplundering art: when spoils of war seized from Germany are returned, where can the line be drawn on the repatriation of other art treasures? | Business, international | |
| Unsafe at any megahertz: Ralph Nader is taking on Bill Gates, is consumerism still a force in America? (Face Value)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Unwinding red tape: scepticism there may be, but the Japanese economy is being deregulated. Which industries will benefit and which will lose? | Business, international | |
| Unwinnable: Turkey and the Kurds. (Turkey cannot win its struggle against Kurdish separatists) | Business, international | |
| Upheaval on the high street. (British price policy) | Business, international | |
| Up the NAIRU without a paddle. (non-accelerating-inflation rate of unemployment)(Economic Focus) | Business, international | |
| Vacant possession: Liberia. (possible 1997 elections) | Business, international | |
| Vanishing peace: a government of national unity is Israel's best hope of retrieving it.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Van Miert in the air: Europe's competition commissioner has his eyes on aviation; but in the case of Boeing his vision is distinctly faulty. (European Commissioner Karel Van Miert)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Vertical thinking: manufacturers often promise retailers that they will not sell to local competitors. Sometimes, such agreements can actually benefit consumers.(Economics Focus)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Very clean people, the Japanese. | Business, international | |
| Very festive: Indonesia. (political opposition strengthens) | Business, international | |
| Viktor Frankl. (psychiatrist)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Violence fills the vacuum: even John Major admits the progress on peace in Ulster is difficult before the general election. | Business, international | |
| Virtually fantastic: Malaysia's information ambitions. (plans for a Multimedia Super Corridor) | Business, international | |
| Vital intangibles: what it takes to come top in technology.(Silicon Valley, CA) | Business, international | |
| Vive la difference? Unfortunately, France may not be different in the way it thinks it is. (economic policy) | Business, international | |
| Wages of sin: the Catholic Church. (sexual abuse cases) | Business, international | |
| Waiting for a job. (unemployment)(A Survey of Italy) | Business, international | |
| Waiting for the call: access to the Internet is in great demand. How should it be priced?(Economics Focus) | Business, international | |
| Waiting for the rebels. (Zaire) | Business, international | |
| Waking the Welsh dragon.(possible devolution referendums in the United Kingdom)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Walter Farmer. (US Army captain)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Wanted: a farming revolution. (European agricultural policy) | Business, international | |
| Wanted: an Algerian policy. (French policy regarding Algeria's civil war) | Business, international | |
| War and paper peace in Sudan. (civil war) | Business, international | |
| Ward Connerly's trumpet blast. (anti affirmative action activist nationalizes his campaign)(Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Warm words. (common ground between environmentalists and industrialists over global warming) | Business, international | |
| War of the airwaves: Bosnia. (political broadcasting) | Business, international | |
| Wary partners in the South Atlantic. (analysis of Argentine and British relations) | Business, international | |
| Washing Cordiant away: advertising agencies. (advertising agency to split into two separate agencies and one media-buying organization) | Business, international | |
| Watch the Front: France. (National Front party) | Business, international | |
| We are all fine-tuners now: America's monetary policy has held inflation down even as unemployment plummets. How long can this last? | Business, international | |
| Web browsing: on-line retailing.(book retailing) | Business, international | |
| Weighing the case for the network computer. | Business, international | |
| Weighty matters for Europe's Union. (proposal to give weight to population size in European Union voting) | Business, international | |
| Welcome to Europe. (expanding European Union by adding countries Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Welcome to the new world of private security. (private police forces)(Policing for Profit) | Business, international | |
| Weldless: Massachusetts. (Governor William Weld takes position as US Ambassador to Mexico)(American Survey) | Business, international | |
| Welfare, Inc. (privatization of welfare programs) | Business, international | |
| Welfare to what? (Britain: Welfare Reform) | Business, international | |
| We're clean: Mexico. (promise of fraud-free elections by the Institutional Revolutionary Party) | Business, international | |
| We're clean. (prospects for upcoming presidential elections in Mexico) | Business, international | |
| West Bank danger signals. (troubled Middle East peace process) | Business, international | |
| Westinghouse RIP. (Westinghouse Electric Corp. to become a media firm)(Business) | Business, international | |
| What a mess: ex-Yugoslavia. (politics) | Business, international | |
| What Arafat can and can't do. (Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat) | Business, international | |
| What are Sinn Fein's intentions? (Northern Ireland) | Business, international | |
| What boys and girls are made of: social science. (computer model used to study trade patterns) | Business, international | |
| Whatever next? (first successful cloning of an adult mammal, Dolly the Scottish sheep) | Business, international | |
| What goes round ... (the US dollar and foreign exchange) | Business, international | |
| What is a child? (juvenile justice) (American Survey) | Business, international | |
| What's cooking?(UK electoral reform; Bagehot)(Column) | Business, international | |
| What's in a name? Virgin.(UK conglomerate company Virgin Group PLC) | Business, international | |
| What's wrong with copying? (plagiarism) | Business, international | |
| What the doctor ordered: Thailand's economic package. (agreement with the International Monetary Fund) | Business, international | |
| When neighbors embrace. (analysis of NAFTA benefits on the Mexican economy) | Business, international | |
| When neighbours embrace: the NAFTA effect. (North American Free Trade Agreement) | Business, international | |
| When the smoke clears in Asia. (smog from forest fires) | Business, international | |
| When the walls come tumbling down. (European Monetary Union and its impact on businesses) | Business, international | |
| Where Marilyn trod: reviving Hollywood. | Business, international | |
| Where no news is bad news; Russia. (newspaper publishing) | Business, international | |
| Where's the lifebelt? Germany. (economic policy) | Business, international | |
| Where Wisconsin goes, can the world follow? (welfare reform) | Business, international | |
| Whispering reform. (economic, political reform in Japan) | Business, international | |
| White smoke, and black. (tobacco industry settlement)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Who is a German?(immigration and citizenship laws in Germany) | Business, international | |
| Who knows? Banking in Vietnam. | Business, international | |
| Who needs a state pension? (United Kingdom's Conservative Party proposes privatization of state pension)(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Who planted the bombs? Cuba. (series of recent bombings in Havana) | Business, international | |
| Whose welfare? Open the door, carefully, to private companies.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Who's for prime minister? (1997 French general elections) | Business, international | |
| Who shall be Iran's next president? | Business, international | |
| Who's next? Germany.(possible successors to Chancellor Helmut Kohl) | Business, international | |
| Who's top? World education league.(comparing international educational achievement)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Who will be Germany's Tony Blair? (rivalry between Social Democratic Party leaders Gerhard Schroder and Oskar Lafontaine) | Business, international | |
| Who will join the club? NATO. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | Business, international | |
| Who will listen to Mr. Clean? (Peter Eigen fights against business bribery in developing countries)(Face Value) | Business, international | |
| Who will run Poland? (election results) | Business, international | |
| Who will steer the Titanic? Despite the sound and fury generatd by pro-EMU Conservatives, they have lost the battle for control of the Tory party. | Business, international | |
| Why Bill Gates should worry: beleaguered Microsoft. | Business, international | |
| Why China wants to cuddle. (foreign relations) | Business, international | |
| Why Iranians are so tired. (underground economy)(Iran Survey) | Business, international | |
| Why is North Korea starving? | Business, international | |
| Why non-Europeans should care about EMU. (European Monetary Unite)(Economic Focus) | Business, international | |
| Why pagodas don't fall down. | Business, international | |
| Why risk is no longer a four-letter word. (investments) | Business, international | |
| Why some shops drop. (success and failure of stores within shopping malls)(Economics Focus) | Business, international | |
| Why the polls got it wrong the last time.(UK elections) | Business, international | |
| Why there is a perplexing shortage of rich kids. | Business, international | |
| Why too many mergers miss the mark. (shareholder value) | Business, international | |
| Why were they there? France and Africa.(French military presence in Africa) | Business, international | |
| Widen Europe: whether the single currency succeeds or fails, the European Union should speedily open its doors to the east.(Editorial) | Business, international | |
| Will anyone dare touch Medicare? (federal budget) | Business, international | |
| Will Asian privatisation be watered down in Manila?(possible privatization of the waterworks in Manila, Philippines) | Business, international | |
| Will East Asia keep its balance? (international relations) | Business, international | |
| Will economics bless this union? Trustbusting. | Business, international | |
| Will EMU's troubles delay the Union's enlargement? (European Monetary Unit; European Union) | Business, international | |
| William Burroughs. (novelist and anarchist)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| William Faulkner, past and future. (Lexington)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Will, indeed can, Germany change? | Business, international | |
| Willing, eager and cheap: illegal immigrants. | Business, international | |
| Will it be a landslide? It would take a miracle to save the Tories on May 1st.(UK elections) | Business, international | |
| Will Medicare sink the budget? | Business, international | |
| Will Netanyahu bring in Peres? (Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu; former prime minister Shimon Peres; peace in the Middle East) | Business, international | |
| Will the world slump? (examination of possibilities of a worldwide downturn in financial markets)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Wimmin are from Mars, women are from Venus. (evolution of feminism in the US) | Business, international | |
| Winning the peace: Wales. (political reform referendum) | Business, international | |
| Within limits: media freedom. (in Latin American countries) | Business, international | |
| Word games and game words. (sporting terminology) | Business, international | |
| Workers of the world. (immigration)(Schools Brief) | Business, international | |
| Working for your welfare: Labour and Tory plans to make the jobless work for their benefits reveal a great deal about the differences between the parties. | Business, international | |
| Working poor: tax and benefits. (United Kingdom) | Business, international | |
| Worldbeater, Inc. (role of multinational corporations in bringing world's economies together; part 6)(Schools Brief) | Business, international | |
| World champion: car theft. (British car thieves thwart electronic anti-theft tracking devices) | Business, international | |
| WorldCom tucks in - again. (WorldCom's bid to acquire MCI Communications) | Business, international | |
| Worrying trend: Czech investment funds. | Business, international | |
| Worthwhile, despite the flaws. (UK devolution plans are flawed, but deserve voters' support)(Editorial)(Cover Story) | Business, international | |
| Would prime minister Blair be a radical?(Bagehot; Tony Blair)(Column) | Business, international | |
| Xenophile urgers: love affairs with foreign banks.(Survey of Banking in Emerging Markets) | Business, international | |
| Year zero: Chechnya.(presidential candidates) | Business, international | |
| Yes, yes, yes? Perhaps: devolution referendums. (British referendums on Scottish and Welsh devolution) | Business, international | |
| Yet another shock to South Korea's system. (corruption in government of Pres. Kim Young Sam including alleged crimes of his son, Kim Hyun Chul) | Business, international | |
| You can't follow the science wars without a battle map. | Business, international | |
| You'll be hearing from my lawyer. (class action suits and its effect on labor practices) | Business, international | |
| Your friendly neighbourhood arms-dealer: should the United States sell high-tech weapons to Latin America? | Business, international | |
| Your friends are the police.(police reform in South Africa) | Business, international | |
| Your papers please. (bureaucratic obstacles faced by businesses in Eastern Europe)(Business in Eastern Europe Survey) | Business, international | |
| Yours hopefully: new verse. (poetry) | Business, international | |
| Your very own web-radio.(radio broadcasting on the World Wide Web)(Industry Overview) | Business, international | |
| You scratch my back.... (politics in Brazil) | Business, international | |
| You think that's funny? To understand a country, you can study its economic data and demographic statistics. Or you can collect its jokes. | Business, international | |
| Yuri Nikulin. (Russian comic dies on August 21st, 1997 at 75)(Obituary) | Business, international | |
| Zero option: Germany.(German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the single European currency) | Business, international | |
| Zero option. (Helmut Kohl and the German political situation) | Business, international | |
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